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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The ‘natal probability,’ or statistical expectation of offspring, based on the age of one parent only.
  • noun Same as monogony, 1, or monogenesis.
  • noun Same as monogenism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Monogenesis.
  • noun (Anthropol.) The doctrine that the members of the human race have all a common origin.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun monogenesis
  • noun anthropology The doctrine that all of the members of the human race have a common origin.

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