polygenesis

/pol-ee-jen-uh-sis/US // ˌpɒl iˈdʒɛn ə sɪs //UK // (ˌpɒlɪˈdʒɛnɪsɪs) //

多基因遗传,多基因组,多基因遗传学,多基因组学

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Biology, Anthropology.
- : origin from more than one ancestral species or line.

Polygenesis amounted to a justification for Europeans believing themselves essentially different from the rest of the species.
Polygenesis, pol-i-jen′e-sis, n. origin from many separate germs: the theory that organisms sprang from different cells.
Polygenesis in his inventions may probably be regarded as testimony in favour of the monogenesis of Man.