monogenesis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The theory that mankind originated with a single ancestor or ancestral couple.
The theory that all languages, or a particular set of languages, originated from a single source.
Development of the ovum from a parent like itself.
Asexual/nonsexual reproduction, which involves only one parent.
The emergence from a single cause or origin.

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monogenesis monogeneses

From mono- + -genesis.

polygenesis

metagenesis parthenogenesis

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