Enlightenment polygenesists dismissed monogenesis and biblical single creation

Evidence

Later that year, Lord Kames, a Scottish judge and philosopher and one of the engines of the Scottish Enlightenment, followed Long’s History with Sketches of the History of Man. The devastating treatise attacked assimilationist thinking and tore apart monogenesis, which assumed that all the races were one species. … Climates created the species, but they could not change one color to another, Kames maintained. Dismissing Adam and Eve, Kames based his multiple creations on the Tower of Babel story in Genesis. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 263

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes polygenesis (separate creations) from monogenesis (one species, climate variation) — useful for placing arguments in Kendi’s scheme.