Examples of polygenesis in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The images of Renty and his daughter are part of Agassiz’s polygenesis work. — Deirdre Fernandes, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019 But Agassiz also advocated polygenesis, the belief that humans weren’t all the same species and that white people were superior. — Deirdre Fernandes, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019 Douglass was especially critical of the promotion of polygenesis: the idea that the races of humankind emerged in separate creation events and with unequal capacities. — Britt Rusert, Slate Magazine, 1 Mar. 2017 Far less so is Samuel Morton (champion of the obsolete theory of polygenesis) or Thomas Dixon (author of novels romanticizing Klan violence). — Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2017 This shaped his application of special creationism to humans, in a theory that came to be known as polygenesis. — National Geographic, 5 Feb. 2017

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