monogenesis

1. (anthropology) The theory that mankind originated with a single ancestor or ancestral couple.Examples: "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."uncountableusually

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

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

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