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Monogeny
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Mo`nog´e`ny
n.1.Monogenesis.
2.(Anthropol.) The doctrine that the members of the human race have all a common origin.
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In the United States at this period, the issues of racial difference and biological evolution were being hotly debated between monogenists, who held that humans had originated as a single type but that due to environmental factors had evolved into various racial groups, and polygenists, who felt that humankind had from its earliest beginnings been divided into distinct races.
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