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polygenism|pəˈlɪdʒɪnɪz(ə)m|
[f. as next + -ism. So F. polygénisme.]
The doctrine of polygeny; the theory that mankind are descended from several independent pairs of ancestors, or that the human race consists of several independent species.
1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 554 Belief in the authenticity of the Mosaic records, which no sophistry on the part of the advocates of polygenism has been able to shake. 1880A. H. Keane in Nature XXIII. 199/1 More rational and philosophic than any conceivable form of polygenism. |