Meanings
adjectivemonogenist (not comparable)
- not comparableHaving a common origin; exhibiting monogenesis.
Despite those demonstrations of a monogenist embryological development, opponents continued their advocacy of polygenist views by focusing instead on nerve regeneration: after a nerve is cut the processes peripheral to the injury first degenerate and later regenerate.
2001, Joseph D. Robinson, Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission, page 23
nounmonogenist (plural monogenists)
plural monogenists
- historicalanthropologyOne who maintains that all members of the human race belong to a single species.
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