# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-george-morton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:17:10.109Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-george-morton"
name: "Samuel George Morton"
slug: "samuel-george-morton"
description: "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."
tagline: "American physician and naturalist (1799–1851)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1799-01-26"
deathDate: "1851-05-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump