polygenism
noun
the theory that the human race has descended from two or more ancestral types.
polygenist
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a word derived from
polygenism.
Example Sentences
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MONOGENISM.—Zoölogists, from the point of view of their own science, now more generally favor the monogenist doctrine, which traces mankind to a single pair, than the polygenist, which assumed different centers of origin.
From Outline of Universal History by George Park Fisher
The monogenist may take exception to the term and especially to the idea while the polygenist, unless he be a corporealist, may not.
From Five Years of Theosophy by Various
