单词	polygenesis
释义	polygenesis noun poly·​gen·​e·​sis ˌpä-lē-ˈje-nə-səs  : development from more than one source Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web The images of Renty and his daughter are part of Agassiz’s polygenesis work. Deirdre Fernandes, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019 But Agassiz also advocated polygenesis, the belief that humans weren’t all the same species and that white people were superior. Deirdre Fernandes, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019 Douglass was especially critical of the promotion of polygenesis: the idea that the races of humankind emerged in separate creation events and with unequal capacities. Britt Rusert, Slate Magazine, 1 Mar. 2017 Far less so is Samuel Morton (champion of the obsolete theory of polygenesis) or Thomas Dixon (author of novels romanticizing Klan violence). Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2017 This shaped his application of special creationism to humans, in a theory that came to be known as polygenesis. National Geographic, 5 Feb. 2017 Word History Etymology poly- + genesis First Known Use circa 1872, in the meaning defined above
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