Monogenesis

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mÉ’nəˈdÍ¡Ê’É›nÉ™sɪs/

Origin

- + genesis + -

Full definition of monogenesis

Noun

1. (anthropology) The theory that mankind originated with a single ancestor or ancestral couple.
• 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, 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.
2. (linguistics) The theory that all languages, or a particular set of languages, originated from a single source.
3. The emergence from a single cause.

Antonyms

• polygenesis