polygenesis

Reclus's and his collaborators' conceptions of scientific work, rooted in the period's cultural wars, were revolutionary in so far as they aimed to make knowledge publicly available--and this knowledge could prove inherently subversive, for instance by asserting the evolutionist theoretical underpinnings of science against the claims of religion, conservative ideas and polygenesis.

Many in this pseudo-scientific field supported the theory of polygenesis, which proposed that different races developed from multiple species, rather than sharing a common ancestor.

Nonetheless, hueman-to-Eurasian human depigmentation mutation represents the triumph of the thesis of monogenesis over that of polygenesis: races as we know them diverged from an initial gene pool of genetic blackness--which is a function of melanin.

the leading early polygenesis theorists responded to the argument that

This exhibition played into popular interest in 'cannibals' and American debates on human origins between supporters of monogenesis and polygenesis (single or multiple creations of humanity) (Keeler 1831; cf.

There is growing acknowledgement that polygenesis is the rule rather than the exception in soil formation, and that soils retain a cumulative imprint of past soil-forming factors and processes (Richter and Yaalon 2012).

Late in the antebellum period, black activists Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Frances Harper began challenging notions of racial hierarchy suggested by craniometry and polygenesis. Such ideas would destroy the interracial "equal adulthood" alliance.

There were, for example, French writers like Francois Bernier (1625-1688), who divided man into four or five species or races, and Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882), who espoused ideas of polygenesis, that different races had different origins, and that, of the three main races, whites were inherently superior.

(24) Writings that review the past offer an understanding about either a monogenesis or a polygenesis portrayal of humanity (biblical or scientific: either one being interchangeable) and thus there is this sense of singularity or multiplicity in origins that works to maintain an elevated civilization for a self-determining group of people.

(82) One may always adduce context-induced polygenesis, but this explanation doesn't rule out the possibility of intertextual influence.

Of One Blood challenges Harvard and ethnologists' polygenesis argument in favor of separate racial creations.