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Webster 1913 Edition
Monogenesis
Monˊo-gen′e-sis
,Noun.
[
Mono-
+ genesis
.] 1.
Oneness of origin; esp.
(Biol.)
, development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; – opposed to polygenesis
. Called also monism
. Dana.
Haeckel.
2.
(Biol.)
That form of reproduction which requires but one parent, as in reproduction by fission or in the formation of buds, etc., which drop off and form new individuals; asexual reproduction.
Haeckel.
3.
(Biol.)
The direct development of an embryo, without metamorphosis, into an organism similar to the parent organism; – opposed to
metagenesis
. E. van Beneden.
Definition 2024
monogenesis
monogenesis
English
Noun
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.
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- (linguistics) The theory that all languages, or a particular set of languages, originated from a single source.
- The emergence from a single cause.