In fact, 'anthropogeny' (explaining the origin of humans) requires a transdisciplinary approach that eschews such barriers. From Wordnik.com. [Dienekes' Anthropology Blog] Reference
Serres found it in the thought which he probably owed to the German transcendentalists (see Chap. VII.), that the permanent structure of the lower animals could be compared with phases in the development of the higher, and particularly of man, or, as he put it, that comparative anatomy was often only a fixed and permanent anthropogeny, and anthropogeny a fugitive and transitory comparative anatomy (xi., p. 106). From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
But I maintain, that when anthropogeny is discussed, it is desirable first of all to explain what is understood by. From Wordnik.com. [The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour] Reference
If, indeed, here and there, one of the older naturalists still disputes, the foundation on which they rest, or demands proofs which are wanting (as happened a few weeks ago on the part of a famous German pathologist at the Anthropological Congress in Moscow), he only shows by this that he has remained a stranger to the stupendous advances of recent biology, and above all of anthropogeny. From Wordnik.com. [Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science] Reference
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