Samuel George Morton
American physician and naturalist
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- 1799–1851
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About Samuel George Morton
Samuel George Morton was an American medical doctor, naturalist, and writer. As one of the early figures of scientific racism, he argued against monogenism, the single creation story of the Bible, instead supporting polygenism, a theory of multiple racial creations.
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