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/pəˈlɪd͡ʒənɪzəm/ · noun
(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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Polygenism means (ethnology) The belief that humans descended from more than one ancestral pair..
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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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