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起源 きげん N3

  1. beginning; origin; source

起源説 きげんせつ

  1. origin hypothesis; theory of origins

種の起源 しゅのきげん

  1. On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin, 1859); origin of species

生命の起源 せいめいのきげん

  1. origin of life

アフリカ単一起源説 アフリカたんいつきげんせつ

  1. Out-of-Africa theory (positing a recent African origin for modern humans)
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