monad

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Each monad has its own destiny, and it acts and moves entirely of its own accord.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 29, 2016

There she found another "bantling of fate," whose Nordic features suggested that he was an atavism, or at least a primeval anachronism; in any case, a monad.

From Time Magazine Archive

It will be necessary now to describe briefly the various laws which have governed this evolutionary chain from the monad to man.

From Was Man Created? by Mott, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)

For if the intelligent dog or elephant have existence in the future, so may the fish, the mollusk, the monad, and even the speck of protoplasm, which loses itself in unorganic matter.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson

Then what aid do these similarities of structure afford to the theory, that all the higher organisms have been evolved by successive steps out of the lowest monad?

From A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' by Bowen, Francis