What is "monogenesis"

Monogenesis \Mon`o*gen"e*sis\, n. [Mono- + genesis.]

1. Oneness of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to polygenesis. Called also monism.
   --Dana.
   --Haeckel.

2. (Biol.) That form of reproduction which requires but one parent, as in reproduction by fission or in the formation of buds, etc., which drop off and form new individuals; asexual reproduction.
   --Haeckel.

3. (Biol.) The direct development of an embryo, without metamorphosis, into an organism similar to the parent organism; -- opposed to metagenesis.
   --E. van Beneden.

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

n. asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores [syn: sporulation]