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So far as the undersigned has seen, all reviewers of the “Précis d'Anthropologie,” lately issued by Profs. Hovelacque and Hervé, of Paris, have noted with no little interest the attitude of the work towards the problem of the origin of man. Rejecting on the one hand the doctrine of the monogenesis of the human family in the way of a purely natural evolution out of lower forms of life, and on the other hand discrediting the polygenesis of men by special creation in different centres of distribution, these eminent anthropologists present, as the probable truth, a compromise hypothesis, which they call transformisme polygénique. According to this view, men were evolved from the lower animals, but in more than one original centre, and from more than one original pair. A French reviewer has well intimated the significance of this new teaching by observing that it marks a distinct schism in the ranks of the Darwinistic anthropologists, and inaugurates debates and investigations from which most important new light may be expected.
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WARREN, W. A Suggestion for Anthropologists. Nature 36, 198 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036198a0
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