polygenistn.adj.

1857 G. R. Gliddon in J. C. Nott & G. R. Gliddon Indigenous Races of Earth v. 402 The Monogenists and the Polygenists: being an exposition of the doctrines of schools professing to sustain dogmatically the Unity or the Diversity of the human races.

1861 Sat. Rev. 23 Nov. 544 Among the polygenists (or upholders of a plurality of species) there are many sincere, if not very logical, Christians.

1881 Nature 13 Jan. 251/1 All polygenists..have regarded the Malays as one of their human species.

1916 J. C. Bracq France under Republic (ed. 2) viii. 187 The ethnic fatalism of polygenists like Gobineau, or mechanistic determinists like Taine.

1968 M. Harris Rise Anthropol. Theory (1969) iv. 87 The eighteenth century also produced its crop of polygenists—those who rejected the authenticity of the account in Genesis and attributed racial differences to acts of special creation.

2002 H. Kunzru Impressionist 232 It was around that time he began to take seriously the ideas of the polygenists. Maybe, he decided, there had been other families apart from that of Adam and Eve.

1865 T. H. Huxley in Fortn. Rev. 15 June 275 The granting of the Polygenist premises does not, in the slightest degree, necessitate the Polygenist conclusion.

1944 Man 44 4/1 Robert Knox..held strongly polygenist views, but deemed the origin of races to be beyond human enquiry.

1995 I. Tattershall Fossil Trail v. 65 Franz Weidenreich..had already begun to form an explicit theory of human descent..partly to provide an alternative to the old polygenist view of human origins.

1860 De Bow's Rev. July 3 We attach more importance to the opinions of Dr. Nott... With his polygenistic inferences we have nothing to do.

1923 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 17 677 The days of slavery called forth a whole series of polygenistic treatises.

2001 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 34 94 It was impossible to see how polygenistic evolutionism could be reconciled with the dogma of original sin.