Even the great liberal Locke floated the idea of African-ape hybrid births

Evidence

Apes, whether “these be all Men, or no, all of human Species”, depended on one’s “definition of the Word Man,” because, he said, “if History lie not,” then West African women had conceived babies with apes. Locke thus reinforced African female hypersexuality in a passage sent round the English-speaking world. “And what real Species, by that measure, such a Production will be in Nature, will be a new Question.” Locke’s new “Question” reflected another new racist debate that most debaters feared to engage in publicly. Assimilationists argued monogenesis: that all humans were one species descended from a single human creation in Europe’s Garden of Eden. Segregationists argued polygenesis: that there were multiple origins of multiple human species. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 120

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the assimilationist/segregationist divide operating at the level of monogenesis vs polygenesis — useful definitions for applying Kendi’s three-way scheme to debates over human origins.
• DEFINE: Defines monogenesis (one species, single creation) vs polygenesis (multiple origins of multiple human species) as the scientific form of the assimilationist/segregationist split.