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monogeny|məˈnɒdʒɪnɪ|
[f. Gr. µόνο-ς mono- + -geny. Cf. F. monogénie.]
1. The (theoretical) origination of mankind from one common pair of ancestors; also loosely, the theory of such origination, monogenism.
1865Anthrop. Rev. Oct. 362 This paper was entitled, ‘On Monogeny and Polygeny’. 1893S. Laing Hum. Origins 405 As the old orthodox argument for monogeny faded into oblivion, a new and more powerful one was furnished by the doctrine of Evolution, as expounded by Darwin.
2. Monogenesis; monogenous reproduction.
1856Mayne Expos. Lex. Monogenia, Physiol., applied by Burdach to the mode of generation which consists in the production, by an organised body, of a part which separates at some period and becomes by its growth a new individual, similar to that which has produced it: monogeny. |