anthropogenesis

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When you have chiefly learned to write, "Your favour of the 11th inst. came duly to hand and in reply we beg to state--" it is confusing to be switched to such words as "anthropogenesis" and to chapter headings like "Substituting Variable Quantities for Fixed Extraordinary Theoretic Possibilities."

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  1. noun The scientific study of the origin and development of humans.

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  • A virtuoso imitation of the fruits of natural evolution crowned by anthropogenesis, the machine would represent a miracle of engineering, but also an oddity one would not know what to do with. —  FIASCO - Stanislaw Lem
  • When you have chiefly learned to write, "Your favour of the 11th inst. came duly to hand and in reply we beg to state--" it is confusing to be switched to such words as "anthropogenesis" and to chapter headings like "Substituting Variable Quantities for Fixed Extraordinary Theoretic Possibilities." —  Bunker Bean
  • Human evolution, or anthropogenesis, is the part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Now Agamben can return to the link between the oath and anthropogenesis, which has already been implicitly at stake insofar as this study has looked at the oath as the testimony to an originary experience of language. —  An und für sich
  • By allowing that the science demonstrating anthropogenesis is more uncertain than it is, even as an expedient, you open up the suggestion that the science underpinning climate change itself is suspect.
 

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἂνθρωπος, man, + γένεσις, generation.
 

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/ænθrəpəˈdʒɛnɛsɪs/
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