Usually means: Belief in multiple human origins.
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  1. polygenism: Merriam-Webster
  2. polygenism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. polygenism: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. polygenism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. polygenism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  9. Polygenism, polygenism: Dictionary.com
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  11. Polygenism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. polygenism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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▸ noun:  (ethnology) The belief that humans descended from more than one ancestral pair.

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polygenist, polygeny, monogeny, polygenotype, polygenesis, monogenism, monogenist, polygenesist, ethnogenics, polygenicity, more...

Opposite:
monogenism, creationism, fixism, essentialism

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polygenist, polygeny, monogeny, polygenotype, polygenesis, monogenism, monogenist, polygenesist, ethnogenics, polygenicity, more...

Opposite:
monogenism, creationism, fixism, essentialism



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