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Definition of Polygeny
1. generation from multiple origins [n POLYGENIES]
Medical Definition of Polygeny
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Polygeny
Literary usage of Polygeny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anthropological Review by Anthropological Society of London (1866)
"... and polygeny. [Objected to by Committee of Section D, on the ground of its
... and polygeny" was strongly objected to, without having been seen, ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"The author considers it possible that the Todas are moving from polyandry toward
monogamy through an intermediate stage of combined polyandry and polygeny. ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"The author considers it possible that the Todas are moving from polyandry toward
monogamy through an intermediate stage of combined polyandry and polygeny. ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... or polygeny, —that is to say, the common or multiplex origin of the different
races which inhabit the earth, nor does it affirm that the progress has ..."
5. War and Its Alleged Benefits by I︠A︡kov Aleksandrovich Novikov, Jacques Novicow, Thomas Seltzer (1911)
"The new theorists proclaim that this is all wrong. Men must of necessity massacre
one another because of polygeny. Savage carnage is a law ..."
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