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

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

As the individual monad, so the whole system which makes up the world is a gradual development.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

The lowest monad has a mouth and means for propagating its kind, which do not belong to the primitive ovum of any higher animal.

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