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Definition of Polygenesis
1. n. The theory that living organisms originate in cells or embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; -- opposed to monogenesis.
Definition of Polygenesis
1. Noun. The genesis of a species from more than one ancestor. ¹
2. Noun. (biology) The theory that living organisms originate in cells or embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; as opposed to monogenesis. ¹
3. Noun. (linguistics) The theory that languages developed independently in different places at different periods, as opposed to originating from a single source. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Polygenesis
1. [n -GENESES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polygenesis
Literary usage of Polygenesis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Research Methods in Ecology by Frederic Edward Clements (1905)
"polygenesis may be formally defined as the origin of one species from another
species at two or more distinct places on the earth's surface, ..."
2. The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker (1900)
"... Units" constituting the genus Homo—Monogenesis and polygenesis—The " Ethnic
Groups" are constituted by the different combinations of the ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1902)
"The doctrine of polygenesis marks a natural reaction from that of a too narrow
monogenesis, but in its extreme extension attains an equal absurdity. ..."
4. Mutation in Mosquitoes: Discussion and Communications from the Research by Samuel Ellsworth Weber (1907)
"polygenesis or the production of more than one species from the same egg-mass
will doubtless prov.ea proposition difficult to bring to the minds of even the ..."
5. Glimpses of the Ages: Or, The "superior" and "inferior" Races, So Called by Theophilus E. Samuel Scholes (1905)
"We have now come to the third proof, viz. that by which the theories of polygenesis
and evolution profess to account for the alleged differences between the ..."
6. Appletons' Popular Science Monthly by William Jay Youmans (1896)
"If this be denied, the doctrine of polygenesis must be accepted as true. But while
a firm believer in polygenesis, I yet believe that these widely separated ..."
7. American Civilization and the Negro: The Afro-American in Relation to by Charles Victor Roman (1916)
"Does humanity descend from a single primitive type (monogenesis), or has it
several distinct ancestors (polygenesis) ? Here is a quarrel which has brought ..."
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