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monogenism

[ muh-noj-uh-niz-uhm ]

noun

  1. the theory that the human race has descended from a single pair of individuals or a single ancestral type.


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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of monogenism1

First recorded in 1860–65; mono- + -gen + -ism
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Example Sentences

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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?

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Among the biblical questions still being pondered by Catholic scholars is monogenism—the belief in one set of Adam-and-Eve "original parents"—as opposed to polygenism, the theory that evolution to human form occurred in many places at roughly the same time.

Theories of monogenism and polygenism.

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Five-sixths of the public are taught this Adamitic Monogenism as if it were an established truth, and believe it.

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Five-sixths of the public are taught this Adamitic Monogenism, as if it were an established truth, and believe it.

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