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Monogenesis vs Anagenesis - What's the difference?

monogenesis | anagenesis |

As nouns the difference between monogenesis and anagenesis

is that monogenesis is (anthropology) the theory that mankind originated with a single ancestor or ancestral couple while anagenesis is the evolution of a new species by the large scale change in gene frequency so that the new species replaces the old rather than branching to produce an additional species.

monogenesis

English

Noun

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

    • Antonyms

    * polygenesis

    anagenesis

    English

    (wikipedia anagenesis)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The evolution of a new species by the large scale change in gene frequency so that the new species replaces the old rather than branching to produce an additional species.