He described his own views as "unorthodox monogenesis". However, monogenesis and relexification have a number of problems. He makes a case for musical monogenesis through the use of the harmonic series. Notable American advocates of linguistic monogenesis include Merritt Ruhlen, John Bengtson, and Harold Fleming. He rejected Monogenesis, and claimed that the Bible supported Polygenisis. For Douglass, monogenesis was closely related to egalitarianism and his politics of black humanity.