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sporulation
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sporulation [‚spȯr·yə′lā·shən]
(biology)
The act and process of spore formation.


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4) Monogenesis is the belief that the activity of only one parent, namely the father, is crucial in the production of a child, with the mother functioning merely as the receptacle for the active or formative principle originating from the father--the father who thereby acquires a son in his likeness, according to his image.
Monogenesis provides a tidy answer; theoretically, all humanity does originate in Africa.
Given his criticism of the three major confessions of his time, he has no sympathy for missions, and he justifies his position by opposing monogenesis (the theory that all humans descended from Adam) and by extending the experience of the discovery of new peoples and continents to the possibility of human populations dwelling on infinitely numerous stars.
 
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