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polygenesis
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pol·y·gen·e·sis  (pl-jn-ss)
n.
Derivation of a species or type from more than one ancestor or germ cell.
poly·gene·sist n.
polygenesis [ˌpɒlɪˈdʒɛnɪsɪs]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) Biology evolution of a polyphyletic organism or group
2. (Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) the hypothetical descent of the different races of man from different ultimate ancestors Compare monogenesis
polygenetic  [ˌpɒlɪdʒɪˈnɛtɪk] adj
polygenetically  adv
polygenesis
1. derivation from more than one kind of cell in the generative process.
2. Also called polygenism. the theory that different species have descended from different original ancestors. Cf. monogenesis. — polygenic, polygenetic, adj.
See also: Biology
Translations
polygenesis [ˌpɒlɪˈdʒenɪsɪs] N → poligénesis f
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Like the tracts of both abolitionists and polygenesists, popular entertainments offered racialized bodies up to scrutiny as signs of interior truth.
"Infantile specimens": showing babies in nineteenth-century America by Pearson, Susan J. / Journal of Social History
For the polygenesist, then, only the impurity of incest can maintain the distinct purity of the "bloodlines" of original and permanent races, while for the monogenesist incest is an etymological misnomer, for in a monogenetic world, all relations are "incestuous," which is to say that none of them are, and the impurity of incest has no meaning.
Pauline Hopkins and the End of Incest by Salvant, Shawn / African American Review
 
 
 
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