English Dictionary

monogenesis

IPA（発音記号）

/mɒnəˈd͡ʒɛnəsɪs/

名詞

不可算名詞 通常

(anthropology) The theory that mankind originated with a single ancestor or ancestral couple.

日本語の意味

人類が単一の祖先または祖先となる男女の組み合わせから起源したとする理論

Many scholars continue to debate monogenesis as they examine genetic and archaeological evidence for a single ancestral origin of humanity.

多くの学者は、遺伝学や考古学の証拠を検討しながら、人類が単一の祖先から起源したという理論について議論を続けている。

意味（1）

(anthropology) The theory that mankind originated with a single ancestor or ancestral couple.

Some held that negritude was a product of living under the tropical sun, a perhaps beneficial adaptation to a fierce climate – an environmentalist solution chiming with monogenesis and Lockean malleability models.

意味（2）

(linguistics) The theory that all languages, or a particular set of languages, originated from a single source.

意味（3）

(biology, medicine) Development of the ovum from a parent like itself.

意味（4）

(biology, medicine) Asexual/nonsexual reproduction, which involves only one parent.

意味（5）

The emergence from a single cause or origin.

The view that one parent tale in one fixed location spawned numerous progeny the world over has come to be known as the theory of monogenesis and diffusion. The contrasting theory of polygenesis assumes that resemblances among tales can be attributed to independent invention in places unconnected by trade routes or travel.

monogeneses （ plural ）