Polygenism is a theory of human origins positing that the human races are of different origins (polygenesis). This is opposite to the idea of monogenism, which posits a single origin of humanity. == Origins == Many oral traditions feature polygenesis in their creation stories. For example, Bambuti mythology and other creation stories from the pygm...
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• (n.) The doctrine that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair.
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(from the article `race`) ...of the scientists involved in this debate was Louis Agassiz, who accepted a position at Harvard University and revolutionized the field of natural ...
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Po·lyg'e·nism (po*lĭj'e*nĭz'm)
noun [ Confer French
polygénisme .]
(Biol.) The doctrine that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair.
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