monogenesis
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monogenesis (uncountable)
- (anthropology) The theory that mankind originated with a single ancestor or ancestral couple.
- 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 248:
- Some held that negritude was a product of living under the tropical sun, a perhaps beneficial adaptation to a fierce climate – an environmentalist solution chiming with monogenesis and Lockean malleability models.
- (linguistics) The theory that all languages, or a particular set of languages, originated from a single source.
- (biology, medicine) Development of the ovum from a parent like itself.
- (biology, medicine) Asexual/nonsexual reproduction, which involves only one parent.
- The emergence from a single cause.