Polygenism's a theory of human origins positing that the human races are of different lineages, either from a scientific or a religious basis. This's opposite to the idea of monogenism, which posits a single origin of humanity. Many oral traditions feature polygenesis in their creation myths. The difference between polygenesis and polygenism's this: polygenesis's a process of multiple origin, polygenism's the doctrine that such a process occurred. From the point of view of religion, polygenism… (More on Polygenism)