Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The theory that all humans are descended from the same ancestors.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The descent of the whole human race from a single pair. Also called
monogeny .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anthropol.) The theory or doctrine that the human races have a common origin, or constitute a single species.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
theory that thehuman races have a commonorigin , or constitute a singlespecies .
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Examples
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Wasn't it about unilinealism or monogenism before?
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Can the strict monogenism of the human race as traditionally understood by Christians, be modified to the scientific consensus that the human species originated in a small population, not a single couple?
Forbes.com: News John Farrell 2011
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The theory of monogenism-origin from a single source-held that all humans descended from a single pair of ancestors, Adam and Eve, and were therefore of the same species.
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