Anthropogeny
The term anthropogeny (from the Greek ánthropos "man" and the verbal stem gen- with the meaning "arise") is or was used:
- by Ernst Haeckel ( anthropogeny or human development history , Leipzig 1874) for human embryology
- in the sense of the origin of man as an alternative to anthropogenesis , see hominization
- in the sense of origin, causation or production by humans, see anthropogenic
- (obsolete) for religious and mythological ideas about the origin of the human species; Instead, the term anthropogony is mostly used today.
