POLYGENISM

noun

18 Scrabble

22 WWF

P 3

O 1

L 1

Y 4

G 2

E 1

N 1

I 1

S 1

M 3

Definition

(ethnology) The belief that humans descended from more than one ancestral pair.

"2003: Such pigmental indelibility spelt polygenism for some: blacks formed a distinct species altogether, a separate creation. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 248)"

Words within POLYGENISM

Shorter words you can make from these letters:

MOPINGLY

MISOGYNE

POSINGLY

SPONGILY

SEMILONG

GYPSINE

PIGSNEY

GLIMPSE

ISOGENY

LEPOMIS

LEYSING

LYSOGEN

PEONISM

PLENISM

EGILOPS

GOELISM

SLOPING

SPINGEL

EPSILON

SINOPLE

GELOSIN

LIGNOSE

GYMPIE

EMPLOY

EPONYM

LIMPSY

SIMPLY

GEOMYS

MYOGEN

PLYING

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