Definition of "anthropogenesis" []

• The scientific study of the origin and development of humans. (noun)

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• "Cosmogony, biogenesis and anthropogenesis are relatively new fields of research that depend on the findings of many other fields."
• "Ages a counterscience rather than a further example of Idealist science is its turn from anthropogenesis to psychoanalysis."
• "Still “the roote of all,” it has of late appeared in a number of guises, notably the attempt of Teilhard de Chardin to argue that the universe evolves from cosmogenesis through anthropogenesis to Christogen - esis."