monogenesis

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

sporulation monogeny monogenism monogenist monogeneticism monogenesy unilineality polygenism anthropogenesis monogenotype

Often followed by

and of to or theory versus was is in

Word family

monogeneses