polygenism

Noun

Meaning

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

Examples

Henceforth, scientific racist discourses could be defined as the combination of polygenism, unilinealism, social Darwinism and eugenism. Source: Internet

He later extended this idea to humans in his theory of polygenism. Source: Internet

I think the point is that Humani Generis itself — while not arguing that polygenism is clearly consistent with Catholic doctrine — does not exclude the possibility that polygenism is consistent, or will be found to be consistent, with Catholic doctrine. Source: Internet

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