Monogenesis

Quick meaning: Monogenesis is a noun meaning (anthropology) The theory that mankind originated with a single ancestor or ancestral couple.

Meaning

(anthropology) The theory that mankind originated with a single ancestor or ancestral couple.

More Meanings

1. (linguistics) The theory that all languages, or a particular set of languages, originated from a single source.
2. (biology, medicine) Development of the ovum from a parent like itself.
3. The emergence from a single cause or origin.

Example Sentences

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.

The view that one parent tale in one fixed location spawned numerous progeny the world over has come to be known as the theory of monogenesis and diffusion. The contrasting theory of polygenesis assumes that resemblances among tales can be attributed to independent invention in places unconnected by trade routes or travel.

Word Forms

• monogeneses

Synonyms for monogenesis

Depending on context, synonyms include sporulation.

Antonyms for monogenesis

Common opposites include polygenesis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sporulation, monogeny, monogenism, monogenist, unilineality, polygenism.

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