Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss-American biologist and geologist. He is particularly known for his contributions to ichthyological classification, including of extinct species, and to the study of geological history, including to the founding of glaciology. Agassiz's resistance to Darwinian evolution, belief in creationism, and the scientific racism implicit in his writings on human polygenism, have tarnished his reputation and led to controversies over his legacy. Polygenism is a theory of human origins which posits the view that the human races are of different origins (polygenesis). | |
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