polygenist

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• The environment proved ineffectual against the force of innate constraints, nor could it influence what many polygenists considered impossible to alter.

  Academic text (1996)

• Stories told by polygenists underwrote the expansive ideology of Manifest Destiny.

  Academic text (1996)

• Most of the polygenists believed the Indians would never change because they could not.

  Academic text (1996)

• In their attack on environmentalism as an agent for change, polygenists denied change itself.

  Academic text (1996)

• Most polygenists saw education and philanthropic attempts to civilize Indians as doomed to failure and viewed the impending extinction of the Indian as perhaps tragic but inevitable.

  Academic text (1996)

• For Morton and other polygenists of the so-called "American School of Anthropology," not only could the cranium articulate information about the individual, it also spoke "truths" about the individual's race.

  Academic text (1996)

• Polygenist theories like Knox's, in contrast, claimed that the races of humankind each derived from a separate origin and that their distinguishing traits were thus innate and possibly unalterable.

  Academic text (2007)

• The polygenist argued that human races evolved independently in different environments.

• Many polygenists proposed theories that emphasized the inherent differences among various racial groups.

• In a debate about human origins, the polygenist maintained that evolution had occurred separately for each race.

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Etymology