anthropogeny

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What does anthropogeny mean?

Human origins, human generation, or the origin and development of man; the study of those things.

Where does anthropogeny come from?

From anthropo- + -geny, attested 1839. As it were from a Greek *ἀνθρωπογένεια (*anthrōpogéneia), hypothetical abstract noun of ἀνθρωπογενής (anthrōpogenḗs, “born of man”).

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