2 sentences with 'polygenism'

Example sentences and phrases with the word polygenism and other words derived from it.


« The theory of polygenism codified racism, giving the notion of black inferiority the lofty mantle of science. A popular proponent of the idea postulated that blacks occupied a place in evolution between the Greeks and the chimpanzees. »
« Agassiz helped popularise polygenism, the idea that different human races came from different origins. According to this formulation, there was no single human family origin and blacks constituted a race entirely separate from the white race. »

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