monogenism

On the other hand, monogenism retained support in London's learned societies.

They also believed in monogenism and tended to be politically liberal, especially on matters related to race.

In contrast, Darwin presented evidence that humans all had a common origin, a view known as monogenism.

In France of the 1850s, monogenism was an unfashionable point of view.

Discussions promoting monogenism, for example, were often used to oppose slavery and segregation.

The debate in anthropology had swung in favour of monogenism by the mid-20th century.

Nott believed monogenism was "absurd" and had no biblical or scientific basis.

Modern polygenists don't accept either theological or scientific monogenism.

An argument brought against monogenism in its environmentalist form was that it involved a Lamarckian hypothesis on inheritance.

Therefore, on the level of the entire human population, this explanation of human origin is classified as monogenism.

Paul Topinard, an early physical anthropologist, associated monogenism with backwardness and narrow intellectual horizons.

In the book, in a form of environmental monogenism, he claimed that the White Race was the first on earth:

Dunn argued for an environmentalist monogenism.

Believing in monogenism, Buffon thought that skin colour could change in a single lifetime, depending on the conditions of climate and diet.

Voltaire found biblical monogenism laughable, as he expressed:

Monogenism or sometimes monogenesis is the theory of human origins which posits a common descent for all human races.

The negation of monogenism is polygenism.

A proponent of this approach to monogenism was James Cowles Prichard.

An anthropological school advocating polygenism arose to counter Prichard's monogenism in France.

He pointed to excavations in Egypt which depicted animals and humans as they looked today to refute monogenism and evolution.

Buffon and Johann Blumenbach were believers in monogenism, the concept that all races have a single origin.

Monogenism as a Bible-based theory required both the completeness of the narratives, and the fullness of their power of explanation.

Morton argued against the single creation story of the Bible (monogenism) and instead supported a theory of multiple racial creations (polygenism).

Boyle believed in what today is called 'monogenism', that is, that all races, no matter how diverse, came from the same source, Adam and Eve.

Since polygenists such as Hunt and Crawfurd were opponents of Darwin, monogenism became part of a larger debate on evolution.