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Monogenism
the doctrine in anthropology which asserts that mankind has a single origin and that all the human races are related to one another by blood kinship. According to monogenism, contemporary mankind has one species (Homo sapiens), and the human races are intraspecific subdivisions that formed as a result of modern man’s settling in various areas of the world. Monogenism is confirmed by a multitude of anthropological facts and above all by the fact that all the human races yield fertile offspring when mixed. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | The most recurrent theme in these chapters is his discussions of the ways that orthodox defenses of monogenesis (the doctrine of mankind's common descent from a single ancestor) "promoted the notion that . From this ethnological perspective, Hopkins's outlook on the genealogical implications of "one blood" remains considerably more sanguine in comparison with the profoundly ambivalent explication of the scientific, cultural, and political meanings of "one blood" suggested in her final work of fiction, where "one blood" as a metaphor for redemptive monogenesis becomes troublingly conflated with "one blood" as a metaphor for universal incest. 4) Monogenesis is the belief that the activity of only one parent, namely the father, is crucial in the production of a child, with the mother functioning merely as the receptacle for the active or formative principle originating from the father--the father who thereby acquires a son in his likeness, according to his image. |
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