| This is reinforced by a widespread belief in polygenism, that the Chinese are a separate branch of humanity rather than sharing a common origin with the rest of us in Africa. |
| In the context of this militant polygenism of 1854-57, the new anthropology professor Quatrefages accepted a version of black perfectibility. |
| Polygenism, racism and all similar ideas, are a puff of smoke in the air. |
| Monogenism contends that all races have a single origin, while polygenism is the idea that each race has a separate origin. |
| Wallace took a rather unfortunate position on the issue of polygenism v. monogenism before the Anthropological Society in 1864, a compromise between the two radically different theories. |
| An archaic view of hominid evolution, Polygenism, holds that different human peoples had differing origins. |
