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.
| 1865 Anthrop. Rev. Oct. 362 This paper was entitled, ‘On Monogeny and Polygeny’. 1893 S. 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.
| 1856 Mayne 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. |