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Polygenism
Po-lyg′e-nism
(pō̍-lĭj′ē̍-nĭz’m)
, Noun.
[Cf. F.
polygénisme
.] (Biol.)
The doctrine that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair.
Definition 2024
polygenism
polygenism
English
Noun
polygenism (uncountable)
- (ethnology) The belief that humans descended from more than one ancestral pair.
- 2003: Such pigmental indelibility spelt polygenism for some: blacks formed a distinct species altogether, a separate creation. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 248)