単たん元げん論ろん

noun

singularism; monadism

Philosophical term for the view that reality is composed of a single fundamental substance or principle. Rare outside academic contexts.

• 単たん元げん論ろんは、世せ界かいの根こん源げんを一ひとつの原げん理りで説せつ明めいしようとする立たち場ばだ。

  Singularism is a position that attempts to explain the origin of the world with a single principle.

noun

monophyletism

Biological term for the theory that all organisms descended from a single ancestral form. Highly technical.

• 単たん元げん論ろんは、生せい物ぶつが単たん一いつの祖そ先せんから進しん化かしたという考かんがえ方かたである。

  Monophyletism is the idea that living organisms evolved from a single ancestor.