Answer to Question #258895 in History for Kelsey Jand

Question

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1. Linnaeus tested the idea that all living things are related to one another. What ideas were Blumenbach and Camper testing? To what extent were their methods good science—in the sense that they rigorously tested their hypotheses? To what extent did their approaches question “conventional wisdom”? To what extent did they reinforce conventional wisdom?

Answer 1

Blumenach brought up a new scheme of classification that divided humanity into five varieties. Petrus 

on the other hand, believed in monogenesis –the idea all people share a common ancestor- and thought that some groups had drifted further from biblical ideas from others.