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Origin vs Sociogenesis - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between origin and sociogenesis

is that origin is the beginning of something while sociogenesis is the development of social organization, such as among insects.

origin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The beginning of something.
  • The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
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  • (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
  • (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
  • (cartography) An arbitrary point on the earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
  • (in the plural) Ancestry.

    • Synonyms

    * (source) source * (mathematics) zero vector

    Antonyms

    * (source) destination * (anatomy) insertion

    Related terms

    * orient * original * originate * originator * origination

    See also

    * provenance

    External links

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    sociogenesis

    English

    Noun

    (sociogeneses)
  • The development of social organization, such as among insects
    • We studied sociogenesis in certain species of ants.
  • The social origin of a particular phenomenon
    • There are many theories regarding the sociogenesis of language.

    Derived terms

    *sociogenetic *sociogenetically

    Related terms

    *sociogenic