Despite those demonstrations of a monogenist embryological development, opponents continued their advocacy of polygenist views by focusing instead on nerve regeneration: after a nerve is cut the processes peripheral to the injury first degenerate and later regenerate.2001, Joseph D. Robinson, Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission, page 23:
monogenist
noun
Etymology From monogeny + -ist.
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Anthropology, Human sciences, SciencesHistorical One who maintains that all members of the human race belong to a single species.