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monogenism|məˈnɒdʒɪnɪz(ə)m|
[f. mono- + -gen + -ism. So F. monogénisme.]
1. The doctrine of monogeny; the theory that the human races have all descended from a common ancestry, or from a single pair.
1865Huxley in Fortn. Rev. I. 273 Five-sixths of the public are taught this Adamitic Monogenism, as if it were an established truth, and believe it. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 471 But the church doctrine as to man's moral condition does not depend at all upon monogenism. 1880A. H. Keane in Nature 30 Dec. 199/1 Unorthodox monogenism, that is monogenism not starting from a created pair,..seems [etc.].
2. ‘Lamarck's term for the doctrine that all animal types actually living have derived their origin from the same anatomical element’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1891). |