See generally Stephen Jay Gould, American Polygeny and Craniometry Before Darwin. |
Polygeny had European antecedents, but Americans developed the data to solicit popular support based on a large body of research they conducted to formulate its tenets. |
White was a believer in polygeny, the idea that different races had been created separately. |
Presentations such as those in the Natural History of the Mammals provided fuel for the fire of polygeny. |