Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as anthropogenesis.
  • noun The sum of human knowledge concerning the development of man. Also called anthropogony.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The science or study of human generation, or the origin and development of man.

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  • noun The study of human origins, human generation, or the origin and development of man.

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  • noun the evolution or genesis of the human race

Etymologies

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anthropo- + -geny, attested 1839. As it were from a Greek *ἀνθρωπογένεια, hypothetical abstract noun of ἀνθρωπογενής "born of man".

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Examples

  • In fact, 'anthropogeny' (explaining the origin of humans) requires a transdisciplinary approach that eschews such barriers.

    Dienekes' Anthropology Blog 2008

  • Serres found it in the thought which he probably owed to the German transcendentalists (see Chap. VII.), that the permanent structure of the lower animals could be compared with phases in the development of the higher, and particularly of man, or, as he put it, that comparative anatomy was often only a fixed and permanent anthropogeny, and anthropogeny a fugitive and transitory comparative anatomy (xi., p. 106).

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • In fact, educated people even in our day are for the most part quite ignorant of the important truths and remarkable phenomena which anthropogeny teaches us.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • This statement may seem to be rather audacious, since the very next branch of biology, anthropology in the stricter sense, makes very little use of these results of anthropogeny, and sometimes expressly opposes them.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • Finally, we must point out, as a fact of the utmost importance for our anthropogeny and of great general interest, that the four-layered coelomula of man has just the same construction as that of the rabbit

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • It was soon evident to every clear-headed thinker that this question could only be answered in the sense of our anthropogeny, by admitting that man had descended from a long series of Vertebrates by gradual modification and improvement.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • Here it may also be well to point out the great importance of anthropogeny, in the light of the biogenetic law, for the purposes of philosophy.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • It is clear that the prejudices that stand in the way of a general recognition of this "natural anthropogeny" are still very great; otherwise the long struggle of philosophic systems would have ended in favour of Monism.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • If, indeed, here and there, one of the older naturalists still disputes, the foundation on which they rest, or demands proofs which are wanting (as happened a few weeks ago on the part of a famous German pathologist at the Anthropological Congress in Moscow), he only shows by this that he has remained a stranger to the stupendous advances of recent biology, and above all of anthropogeny.

    Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • I am now seeking to establish -- monistic anthropogeny.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

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