- humans.
Polygenists reject the
argument that
human races must
belong to a
single species because they can interbreed.
There are
several polygenist hypotheses...
- took
place against the
background of the
debate between monogenists and
polygenists, the
former arguing for a
single origin of all humankind, the latter...
-
human diversity could operate over tens of
thousands of years.
Since polygenists such as Hunt and
Crawfurd were
opponents of Darwin,
monogenism became...
- in
scientific racism was the
polygenist view,
which held that the
different races had been
separately created.
Polygenist Christoph Meiners (1747 – May...
- and was a
polygenist who
speculated that each race had
entirely separate origins.
According to
William Cohen, like most
other polygenists,
Voltaire believed...
- been
scrutinised in the 21st century, as
detailed below.
Crawfurd held
polygenist views,
based on
multiple origins of
human groups; and
these earned him...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- synonymously. In 1962, Coon
published The
Origin of Races,
wherein he
proposed a
polygenist view, that
human races had
evolved separately from
local varieties of...
