| 单词 | anthropogeny | 
| 释义 | anthropogenyn.ΚΠ 1831    F. Rivinus Catal. Med. Libr. Philadelphia Alms-house Index of Subj. 137  				Anthropogeny. 1833    London Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 3 617/2  				There is no treatise on children which embraces correct views on anthropogeny, or the generation of man. 1856    C. G. Comegys tr.  P.-V. Renouard Hist. Med.  i.  iii. iv. 134  				With this somewhat fantastic anthropogeny, the author attempts to show connections, not less curious, between vital and astral heat.  2.  The origin or development of humankind or the human species (= anthropogenesis n. 1). Also: (esp. in scientific contexts) the branch of study concerned with this; (esp. in theological or mythological contexts) an account or theory of human origins (= anthropogony n. 1).In scientific contexts, the term originally (as in the work of Haeckel) encompassed both the scientific study of human evolution (phylogeny) and that of comparative embryology (ontogeny), but it soon came to be applied only to the former. ΘΚΠ the world > people > science of mankind > 			[noun]		 > anthropogeny anthropogony1810 anthropogeny1905 1874    Sat. Rev. 17 Oct. 514/2  				Ernest Hæckel's long expected ‘Anthropogeny, or History of Human Development’, is undoubtedly in some respects a great work. 1905    Science 22 Dec. 812/2  				Up to the present, the field of systematic knowledge dealing with the progress of mankind (the science of human phylogeny, sometimes called anthropogeny) has not been clearly defined. 1914    Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Soc. 44 139  				A mythopoetic people, whose systems of cosmogony and anthropogeny teem with personifications of natural phenomena and objects. 1952    S. W. Baron Social & Relig. Hist. Jews 		(ed. 2)	 I. ii. 47  				Early biblical narratives pay far less attention to cosmogony and anthropogeny than to the subsequent human destinies. 1977    Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 90 162  				The issue rests in whether the teaching embodied in the various [Lakota] anthropogenies is compatible with Walker's manuscript account of the creation. 2002    A. Tripolitis Relig. Hellenistic–Roman Age v. 135  				The work is also an important source of pagan gnostical cosmogony and anthropogeny. 2008    Science 1 Feb. 557/3  				A new virtual center to gather researchers from disciplines related to anthropogeny, the study of human origins, will be announced shortly.  3.  The origination of something in human activity; the extent to which something originates in human activity. Cf. anthropogenesis n. 2. rare. ΚΠ 1973    Interfaces 3 46  				The concept of anthropogeny is of fundamental importance in discussions of environmental pollution. 2008    S. Manguin et al.  Biodiversity of Malaria in World 152/2  				The proportion of both species varied enormously according to the topography, the climate, the season, the vegetation, and the anthropogeny of the environment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). <  | 
	
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