- Look up monogenesis or
monogenist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Monogenism or the
monogenesis theory of
human origins posits a
common descent for...
- 19th
century took
place against the
background of the
debate between monogenists and polygenists, the
former arguing for a
single origin of all humankind...
- London's
learned societies. The
Ethnological Society of
London had the
monogenist tradition of
Thomas Hodgkin and
James Cowles Prichard,
continuing in Robert...
- 19th
century took
place against the
background of the
debate between monogenists and polygenists, the
former arguing for a
single origin of all mankind...
- monogenism; and that the only p****age the
monogenists use is Acts 17:26,
where (he wrote) the
monogenists are
wrong in
their interpretation of this verse...
- on
environmental factors, such as
solarization and diet. Like
other monogenists,
Blumenbach held to the "degenerative hypothesis" of
racial origins....
-
years of the
prevailing Ussher chronology subscribed to by most of the
monogenists.
Opponents of
monogenism believed that it
would have been
difficult for...
- much
agitated by anthropologists, who are
divided into two
schools of
monogenists and polygenists." The
latter had to "look at
species either as separate...
- 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...
