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English
Etymology
From poly- + -genism.

Pronunciation
IPA|/pəˈlɪʤənɪzəm/

Noun
en-noun|-

1. (ethnology) The belief that humans descended from more than one ancestral pair.

#*2003: Such pigmental indelibility spelt polygenism for some: blacks formed a distinct species altogether, a separate creation. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 248)

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