The approach to ethnology current at the time of the Society's founding relied on climate and social factors to explain human diversity; the debate was still framed by Noah's Flood, and the corresponding monogenism of human origins.
The approach to ethnology current at the time of the Society's founding relied on climate and social factors. This was to explain human diversity. The debate was still framed by Noah's Flood. The debate was still framed by the corresponding monogenism of human origins.