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Definition of monogenist

Monogenist
Monogenist Mo*nog"e*nist, n. (Anthropol.) One who maintains that the human races are all of one species; -- opposed to polygenist.

Meaning of monogenist from wikipedia

- London's learned societies. The Ethnological Society of London had the monogenist tradition of Thomas Hodgkin and James Cowles Prichard, continuing in Robert...
- anthropology was prominent in the debate about slavery, with the scientific, monogenist works of the British abolitionist James Cowles Prichard (1786–1848) opposing...
- Look up monogenesis or monogenist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Monogenism or monogenesis is the theory of human origins which posits a common descent...
- year. Vogt defended the theory of polygenist evolution; he rejected the monogenist beliefs of most Darwinists and instead believed that each race had evolved...
- 19th century took place against the background of the debate between monogenists and polygenists, the former arguing for a single origin of all humankind...
- on environmental factors, such as solarization and diet. Like other monogenists, Blumenbach held to the "degenerative hypothesis" of racial origins....
- 19th century took place against the background of the debate between monogenists and polygenists, the former arguing for a single origin of all mankind...
- Blumenbach's work was later used in scientific racism, Blumenbach was a monogenist and did not believe the human "varieties" were inherently inferior to...
- of Caucasus origins. In contrast to Meiners, however, Blumenbach was a monogenist—he considered all humans to have a shared origin and to be a single species...
- Blumenbach's work was later used in scientific racism, Blumenbach was a monogenist and did not believe the human "varieties" were inherently inferior to...