Polygeny

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  • n. Polygenesis.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In anthropology, the multiple genesis of man; the supposed independent origin of the human races, as opposed to monogenism, or the theory of unity of genesis.
    • Word Usage
    "In the real world genes often affect more than one trait (pleiotropy), or more than one gene affects a given trait (polygeny)."
     
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