Polygenesis can refer to: *

Polygenesis (linguistics) In historical or evolutionary linguistics, monogenesis and polygenesis are two different hypotheses about the phylogenetic origin of human languages. According to monogenesis, human language arose only once in a single community, and all current l ...

, a theory of language origin *

Polygenism Polygenism is a theory of human origins which posits the view that humans are of different origins (polygenesis). This view is opposite to the idea of monogenism, which posits a single origin of humanity. Modern scientific views find little merit ...

, 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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