monogenesis – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
monogenesis
n.
development from one cell; asexual reproduction (Biology)
Monogenism (disambiguation)
monogenesis
Noun
1. asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores
(synonym) sporulation
(hypernym) asexual reproduction, agamogenesis
(hyponym) heterospory
Monogenesis
(n.)
The direct development of an embryo, without metamorphosis, into an organism similar to the parent organism; -- opposed to metagenesis.
(n.)
That form of reproduction which requires but one parent, as in reproduction by fission or in the formation of buds, etc., which drop off and form new individuals; asexual reproduction.
(n.)
Oneness of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to polygenesis. Called also monism.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Monogenesis
Monogenesis [from Greek monos single + genesis origin] The theory that all forms of life were developed from a single cell, or that all humanity is sprung from a single primitive stock or root; opposed to polygenesis. Monogenesis may also mean that any living stock of beings, such as the human, sprang from a single pair formerly living on some one part on the earth's surface. Modern scientific theories of polygenesis are a far closer approximation to the theosophic view, which states that the earliest or primordial forms of the human stock on earth sprang more or less contemporaneously from seven different roots (imbodied groups of lunar monads) living more or less together in the regions surrounding what is now the north pole, which then enjoyed a tropic or semi-tropic climate. It was from the dispersion of these seven different root-stocks that later sprang the various human races known in legend, story, and history. In a cosmic sense it is possible to trace back all living forms to the original cosmic monad from which, as from a cosmic fountain, flowed forth into later manifestation the infinitely varied phenomena of the solar system. However, even this quasi-mongenetic origin of a solar system was brought about by polygenetic seeds of life cooperating to produce it.
