anthropogenicadj.

1883 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) IV. 689/1 Anthropogenic, of or pertaining to anthropogeny.

1894 F. H. Giddings Theory Sociol. iii. 40 The development of the social mind as self-conscious, and the genesis of a varied tradition, mark the transition from animal to man. It is the anthropogenic stage of association.

1912 Amer. Anthropologist 14 707 Appearance of Man in Europe—Hypotheses as to Anthropogenic Centers.

1952 H. H. Gerth & D. A. Martindale tr. M. Weber Anc. Judaism ix. 227 The cosmogonic and anthropogenic myths are of secondary importance in Yahwistic religiosity.

1973 E. Ginzberg N.Y. very much Alive xiv. 249 In the most general terms, the anthropogenic system is that set of institutions, including the family and the schools, through which human competences are developed.

2012 M. Glouberman Raven, Dove, & Owl of Minerva viii. 175 True to its name, the Theogony takes for its subject the origin of divinity. Genesis, by contrast, caters primarily to an anthropogenic wonder. We men and women, what are we?

1923 A. G. Tansley Pract. Plant Ecol. iv. 48 Where he [sc. man] has introduced a more or less permanent modifying factor or set of factors, we have biotic (anthropogenic) climaxes or some stage of development towards them.

1947 Nature 11 Jan. 45/1 The virgin forest..and even the forest nursery are viewed as possible systems of this kind maintained either by natural or anthropogenic forces.

1963 E. Pyddoke Scientist & Archaeol. iii. 67 West has suggested that at Hoxne a phase of deforestation might be anthropogenic.

1976 Science 12 Nov. 685/1 Anthropogenic gases may alter our climate by plugging an atmospheric window for escaping thermal radiation.

2008 S. Vanderheiden Atmospheric Justice i. 38 By the time George W. Bush took office in early 2001, the existence of anthropogenic climate change was acknowledged by broad scientific consensus.

1969 Folia Geobotanica & Phytotaxonomica 4 150 Anthropogenically modified regeneration—passes through stages formed as least partly by substitute biocenoses.

1991 Forestry 64 417 The thesis of the American Marshall Institute that a reduction of solar radiation over the coming centuries will effectively offset the effects of anthropogenically induced warming.

2014 Freshwater Sci. 33 182/2 The Sauerland region has been anthropogenically influenced since medieval times by agriculture.