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What is a polygenist?

What is a polygenist? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who maintains that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair; -- opposed to monogenist.
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The polygenist Paul Broca became the dominant figure in the field.
Schreiner seems caught between a Darwinian monogenist idea of human evolution and the at one time more widely held polygenist, hierarchical interpretation.
Voltaire rejected the biblical Adam and Eve story and was a polygenist who speculated that each race had entirely separate origins.

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