Polygenism

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title: Polygenism
text: Polygenism is a theory of human origins which posits the view that the human races are of different origins (polygenesis). This view is opposite to the idea of monogenism, which posits a single origin of humanity. Modern scientific views find little merit in any polygenic model due to an increased understanding of speciation in a human context, with the monogenic "Out of Africa" hypothesis and its variants being the most widely accepted models for human origins. Polygenism has historically been
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description: Theory of plural human origins
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygenism
date created: 2005-06-20T01:17:49Z
date modified: 2024-09-06T18:42:25Z
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