In the middle of the spectrum were naturalists and physicians who supported the unity of the human species (monogenism), though almost all assumed racial hierarchy.
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Some scholars thus called into question the Church's dogma of a single origin for all humankind (so-called ‘monogenism’), and resolved the discrepancy with a second creation.
Broca argued that the anthropologists could debate monogenism or polygenism without extraneous preoccupations.
monogenist
noun
Among other Society members, we may discern three groups - the Christian monogenists, the hierarchical monogenist geographers and naturalists, and the polygenist colonial delegates and geographers.
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A former secretary of the Société de géographie, the Africanist was a hierarchical monogenist.
On the other hand, religious conservative monogenists such as de Salle could be more defiantly anti-colonialist.