monogenesis

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

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