anthropogeny

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anthropogeny

the study of human origins. — anthropogenic, anthropogenetic adj.

See also: Origins

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anthropogeny - the evolution or genesis of the human race

anthropogenesis

organic evolution, phylogenesis, phylogeny, evolution - (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms

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When Arno, the First Robot, defines himself saying "I am who I am" (188), as Petar Pijanovic perceptively notices (250), in this novel of Pekic's deus literary appears ex machina, and the process of anthropogeny, the metamorphosis of a robot into a human being, may start.