Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The scientific study of the origin and development of humans.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The genesis, origination, or evolution of man: applied both to the development of the individual (ontogenesis) and the development of the race (phylogenesis). Also called anthropogony, anthropogeny.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the evolution or genesis of the human race.
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- noun The origin of man.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the evolution or genesis of the human race
Etymologies
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Examples
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Cosmogony, biogenesis and anthropogenesis are relatively new fields of research that depend on the findings of many other fields.
Archive 2010-01-01 Alex Tang 2010
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Ages a counterscience rather than a further example of Idealist science is its turn from anthropogenesis to psychoanalysis.
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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Still “the roote of all,” it has of late appeared in a number of guises, notably the attempt of Teilhard de Chardin to argue that the universe evolves from cosmogenesis through anthropogenesis to Christogen - esis.
HIERARCHY AND ORDER C. A. PATRIDES 1968
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Image Credit: mjmonty via Flickr anthropogenesis is looking for some advice on building solar panels:
TreeHugger 2010
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Human evolution, or anthropogenesis, is the part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species from other hominans, great apes and placental mammals.
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Human evolution, or anthropogenesis, is the part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species from other hominans, great apes and placental mammals.
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Now Agamben can return to the link between the oath and anthropogenesis, which has already been implicitly at stake insofar as this study has looked at the oath as the testimony to an originary experience of language.
An und für sich 2009
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Human evolution, or anthropogenesis, is the part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species from other hominans, great apes and placental mammals.
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Now Agamben can return to the link between the oath and anthropogenesis, which has already been implicitly at stake insofar as this study has looked at the oath as the testimony to an originary experience of language.
An und für sich 2009
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The flat water, whose surface totals 2,175 square kilometers, stabilized into an anthropogenesis ecological system that alleviated consequences of the drying up of the Aral Sea.
ragnvaeig commented on the word anthropogenesis
origins of the human species
February 2, 2009
jmjarmstrong commented on the word anthropogenesis
JM is pleased to see that anthropogenesis is still evolving.
April 6, 2011