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Polygenism
Selasa, 2026-05-12 22:04:39

humans. Polygenists reject the argument that human races must belong to a single species because they can interbreed. There are several polygenist hypotheses...

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Monogenism
Kamis, 2025-05-22 20:52:48

time-honored debates were sharpened by the rise of polygenist skeptical claims; when Louis Agassiz set out his polygenist views in 1847, they were opposed on biblical...

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John Crawfurd
Minggu, 2026-04-26 14:59:04

been scrutinised in the 21st century, as detailed below. Crawfurd held polygenist views, based on multiple origins of human groups; and these earned him...

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Scientific racism
Sabtu, 2026-08-22 08:42:37

categorisation. The Scottish lawyer Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782) was a polygenist; he believed God had created different races on Earth in separate regions...

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Christoph Meiners
Selasa, 2026-08-11 11:17:25

philosopher, historian, and writer born in Warstade. He supported the polygenist theory of human origins. He was a member of the Göttingen school of history...

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Semitic people
Jumat, 2026-07-17 19:42:27

later called Aryans. German historian Christoph Meiners, supporter of the polygenist theory of human origins, became a favorite intellectual ancestor of the...

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Caucasian race
Minggu, 2026-08-23 03:15:27

"Caucasian" (Kaukasisch) race in its wider racial sense. As a supporter of the polygenist theory of human origins, he subscribed to a "binary [greater] racial scheme"...

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Racism
Rabu, 2026-08-12 22:16:41

in scientific racism was the polygenist view, which held that the different races had been separately created. Polygenist Christoph Meiners (1747 – May...

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Biological anthropology
Kamis, 2026-06-11 06:20:54

abolitionist James Cowles Prichard (1786–1848) opposing those of the American polygenist Samuel George Morton (1799–1851). In the late 19th century, German-American...

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Voltaire
Sabtu, 2026-08-22 13:56:43

and was a polygenist who speculated that each race had entirely separate origins. According to William Cohen, like most other polygenists, Voltaire believed...

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Book of Mormon
Kamis, 2026-08-20 20:35:29

ancient peoples were familiar with Jesus Christ, the book presents a "polygenist Christian history" in which Christianity has multiple origins. In the...

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Antisemitic trope
Minggu, 2026-08-23 22:35:57

as "other", especially Jews. Prior to the discovery of Neanderthals, polygenists believed that each "race" was descended from an entirely separate act...

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Georges Cuvier
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 23:05:26

usually was confused as polygenist. Some writers who have studied his racial work have dubbed his position as "quasi-polygenist", and most of his racial...

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Mongoloid
Selasa, 2026-07-21 22:47:35

took place against the background of the debate between monogenists and polygenists, the former arguing for a single origin of all humankind, the latter...

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Charles Hamilton Smith
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 16:23:12

Georges Cuvier on interfertility and species; the book also referred to the polygenist views held by Samuel George Morton. Smith's book was reprinted in America...

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Historical race concepts
Jumat, 2026-08-21 14:01:15

Broca, all noted polygenists. By the late 1860s, however, Darwin's theory of evolution had been thought to be compatible with the polygenist thesis (Stepan...

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Josiah C. Nott
Selasa, 2026-05-12 14:40:41

racial theories employed by the Nazi regime. Moreover, Nott and other polygenists, such as Gliddon, believed that the name of the biblical Adam meant "to...

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Alfred Russel Wallace
Minggu, 2026-08-16 09:54:26

major contribution to resolving the dispute between monogenists and polygenists. Prior to 1864, Wallace believed that humans were a result of only natural...

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Robert Knox (surgeon)
Minggu, 2026-08-09 03:11:55

cruel oppressor of the dark races." Knox is generally considered to be a polygenist; however, some have argued that he was a monogenist, including biographer...

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Negroid
Rabu, 2026-08-12 08:40:08

took place against the background of the debate between monogenists and polygenists, the former arguing for a single origin of all mankind, the latter holding...

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Henry Home, Lord Kames
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 16:03:13

and gatherers of seaweed eked out their subsistence living. Home was a polygenist, he believed God had created different races on earth in separate regions...

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Noble savage
Selasa, 2026-08-04 22:37:32

James Hunt used the noble savage in their scientific racism project. As polygenists, Crawfurd and Hunt believed each race is a distinct human species and...

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Serpent seed
Selasa, 2026-07-28 01:43:59

influence on him. Carter may have also been influenced by the pre-Adamite and Polygenist theories which were being promoted in the United States during the 19th...

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Samuel Kneeland (naturalist)
Minggu, 2026-01-18 04:25:36

Smith was a monogenist but with qualifications, and he referred to the polygenist theory of Samuel George Morton. When Smith's book was re-printed in America...

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Pre-Adamite
Senin, 2026-08-03 03:39:49

anthropology, archaeology, paleontology, and ancient history. Being a polygenist, Randolph argued that the color of races, particularly black, was not...

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Paul Broca
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 22:53:02

definitive demonstration, at least a strong presumption of the doctrines of polygenists. On the Phenomenon of Hybridity was published the same year as Darwin's...

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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
Jumat, 2026-07-03 11:38:57

anthropologists, who are divided into two schools of monogenists and polygenists." The latter had to "look at species either as separate creations or...

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Anders Retzius
Kamis, 2025-12-11 16:53:44

index, which is the ratio of width to length of one's head. Retzius was a polygenist. Retzius studied many different skull types from different races; because...

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Edward Long (historian)
Senin, 2026-08-17 06:52:53

to England, in 1769, for health reasons. Long died in 1813. He was a polygenist who claimed that the White race was a different species to the Black race...

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Carl Vogt
Selasa, 2026-07-28 08:57:47

which was reprinted four times the same year. Vogt defended the theory of polygenist evolution; he rejected the monogenist beliefs of most Darwinists and instead...

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Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 19:57:16

antagonistic relationship with Carl Vogt who for his time was a convinced polygenist which Marx and Engels had inherited Vogt's belief. Foucault quotes letters...

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John Colenso
Senin, 2026-07-20 21:00:17

organisation that eventually became the African National Congress. Colenso was a polygenist; he believed in Co-Adamism—that is, that races had been created separately...

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Julien-Joseph Virey
Senin, 2026-05-18 08:24:42

also sketched an early version of the recapitulation theory. He was a polygenist minimalist, proposing two human species (the "White" and "Black"), divided...

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Conjectural history
Rabu, 2026-06-10 23:00:35

edition (Edinburgh, 1778) and a third (Dublin, 1779). Kames was an early polygenist, or was an environmental monogenist only with scepticism about the adequacy...

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Charles Pickering (naturalist)
Selasa, 2026-08-04 23:54:27

to form the foundation of the Smithsonian Institution. Pickering was a polygenist; he believed that different races had been created separately. In 1843...

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Anne Gliddon
Senin, 2026-07-20 19:40:25

1760–1850, which included information about her husband's career as a polygenist ethnologist. It was published by editor Wendy Norman. Gliddon may have...

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George Gliddon
Rabu, 2026-04-29 18:18:46

in contact with in their new homelands. The conclusion bolstered the polygenist argument and lead to Louis Agassiz sharing the same opinion and beginning...

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Thomas Bendyshe
Kamis, 2026-03-19 07:43:26

for his theory of racial classification, began with the rejection of polygenist and chain of being views of race, regarding environmental forces as key;...

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Joseph Barnard Davis
Sabtu, 2026-01-10 10:02:20

the Negro he argued that brain weight was a racial characteristic. A polygenist, he drew conclusions on the intellectual capacities of the Australian...

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Paul Topinard
Minggu, 2025-12-07 16:40:13

Topinard's specialization was physical anthropology. His opinions were polygenist but he was less rigid than Broca. He nonetheless frequently referred to...

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John Atkins (naval surgeon)
Sabtu, 2025-10-11 22:11:39

date. Atkins was one of the earliest scientists to be a proponent of the polygenist theory of human origins. In his book A Voyage to Guinea (1723) he said...

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Thomas Rowe Edmonds
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 18:40:27

introducing such ideas into social thought. On the other hand, Edmonds was a polygenist believing in immutable human species, and no social Darwinist. His analysis...

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Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent
Sabtu, 2026-08-22 00:06:03

controversy between Louis Pasteur and Félix Archimède Pouchet) and an ardent polygenist. He thought that the different human "races", according to the sense of...

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Robert Gordon Latham
Minggu, 2026-04-12 09:14:57

referring instead to "varieties of man", as a reaction to the rise of polygenist theory around 1850. However, he followed in 1854 by writing The Native...

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Raimundo Nina Rodrigues
Jumat, 2026-07-24 22:08:38

perfect to less perfect people, starting from a common ancestor—and polygenists, who were concerned with science, believed that humans were the result...

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