In 1962, Coon also published " The Origin of Races ", wherein he offered a definitive statement of the polygenist view.
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Even after Darwin's book was published, Agassiz still stuck to his scientific form of polygenist creationism and denounced the idea of evolution.
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By the late 1860s, however, Darwin s theory of evolution had been thought to be compatible with the polygenist thesis ( Stepan 1982 ).
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Polygenist Christoph Meiners for example, split mankind into two divisions which he labeled the " beautiful White race " and the " ugly Black race ".
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Darwin thus used " Descent of Man " to disprove the polygenist thesis and end the debate between polygeny and monogeny once and for all.
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Cuvier was a Protestant and a believer in monogenism, who held that all men descended from the biblical Adam, although his position usually was confused as polygenist.
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Some writers who have studied his racial work have dubbed his position as " quasi-polygenist ", and most of his racial studies have influenced scientific racialism.
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Polygenist evolution allowed polygenists to link each race to an altogether different ape, this was shown in the work of Hermann Klaatsch and F . G . Crookshank.
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Samuel Kneeland wrote an 84-page introduction to the American edition of the book where he laid out evidence which supports polygenist creationism and that the Bible is entirely compatible with multiple Adams.
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On the other hand, Darwin's theory admitted the idea of " varieties of man " : it was neither purely monogenist ( in the sense of the term previously used ), nor polygenist.
