Anthropogeny

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The study of human origins, human generation, or the origin and development of man. uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    the evolution or genesis of the human race wordnet

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anthropogenesisanthropogenesis

Etymology

From anthropo- + -geny, attested 1839. As it were from a Greek *ἀνθρωπογένεια (*anthrōpogéneia), hypothetical abstract noun of ἀνθρωπογενής (anthrōpogenḗs, “born of man”).

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