anthropogenesisn.

1862 Geologist 5 233 The question of the nature and date of anthropogenesis, like that of cosmogenesis, will perchance not be solved for many generations yet to come.

1888 H. P. Blavatsky Secret Doctr. II. 6 Before we turn to the Anthropogenesis of the prehistoric Races, it may be useful to agree upon the names to be given to the Continents on which the four great Races..were born.

1953 tr. A. Pannekoek Anthropogenesis Summary 105 The problem of anthropogenesis is to find out how, from the small traces of analogous properties in animals, these qualitatively entirely different human characteristics could develop.

1966 C. F. Mooney tr. P. Teilhard de Chardin in Teilhard de Chardin ii. ii. 57 Does not the success of anthropogenesis..conceal deep within itself an irreducible element of indetermination and incertitude?

1995 C. F. McKhann in S. Harrell Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers 58 In the Naxi myth of anthropogenesis,..not only are all Naxi related as the descendants of four brothers, but..even Earth and Heaven sleep together as husband and wife.

2010 Human Stud. 33 430 Deacon's insight into the way human language works, and how it affected anthropogenesis, will provide a crucial basis for my hypothesis.

1994 Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 740 319 That the emergence of new diseases can be shaped by human forces is well demonstrated in history... The human factor may be called ‘anthropogenesis’.

1997 G. W. Crawford in K. J. Gremillion People, Plants, & Landscapes v. 89 These vegetation history interpretations tend to view forest clearance for agriculture as the primary detectable form of anthropogenesis.

2012 Canberra Times (Nexis) 15 July a22 This is not to doubt the general pattern of warming, or its anthropogenesis.