Associations to the word «Monogenesis»

Wiktionary

MONOGENESIS, noun. (anthropology) The theory that mankind originated with a single ancestor or ancestral couple.
MONOGENESIS, noun. (linguistics) The theory that all languages, or a particular set of languages, originated from a single source.
MONOGENESIS, noun. The emergence from a single cause.

Dictionary definition

MONOGENESIS, noun. Asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky