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Po`lyg´e`nism (pô`lĭj´ė`nĭz'm)

n.

1.

(Biol.) The doctrine that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair.

polygenism

the theory that all human races descended from two or more ancestral types. — polygenist, n. — polygenistic, adj.

See also: Race

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