Polygenesis can refer to: * Polygenesis (linguistics), a theory of language origin * Polygenism, an obsolete theory of human origin *

Gene duplication Gene duplication (or chromosomal duplication or gene amplification) is a major mechanism through which new genetic material is generated during molecular evolution. It can be defined as any duplication of a region of DNA that contains a gene ...

, a form of genetic disorder resulting in the overexpression of a particular gene * Polygenetic landforms, landforms formed the accumulative action of various processes

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