Origin
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"When we examine a nest, we place ourselves at the origin of confidence in the world." -—Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space |
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Origin, origins, or original may refer to:
- The Origin of the World, painting by Courbet
Beginning of the universe and life
- Abiogenesis, the study of how life on Earth arose from inanimate matter
- Cosmogony, any theory concerning the origin of the universe
- Cosmology, the study of the universe and humanity's place in it
- Creation myth, a symbolic account of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it
- Genesis creation narrative, creation as described in the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis in the Bible
- Creatio ex nihilo, Latin for "creation out of nothing", a phrase used in philosophical and theological contexts
Science and technology
- Original soundtrack, recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game
- The source of a river system
- Epochal date or event, see epoch (reference date)
Medicine and biology
- Paleoanthropology, the study of human origin
- Origin of humanity, the study of human evolution
- Origin (anatomy), the place or point at which a part or structure arises
- Origin of replication, the location at which DNA replication is initiated
- The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin's 1859 book
- Pedigree (dog), registered ancestry
Language, culture, philosophy, and religion
- Genealogy, origin of families
- The birth of a living entity, thought, belief or idea
- Epistemology, origin of knowledge
- Origin myth, a story or explanation that describes the beginning of some feature of the natural or social world
- Origin story, or pourquoi story, a fictional narrative that explains why something is the way it is
- Original sin, in Christian theology
- Etymology, origin of words
- Toponymy, origin of place names
Books, comic books, periodicals, online and alternative publications
- Origin story, in comic books, describing how a character gained their special abilities and/or how they became a superhero or supervillain
Other uses
- Origen (185–254), early Christian scholar and theologian
See also
- Creation (disambiguation)
- Originality
- Source (disambiguation)
- Ancestor
- Provenance
- Philosophy of space and time
- Point of reference (disambiguation)
- Yoni
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