MaxShimba
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Darwin's view on race, he never considered "the less civilized races" to be authentically human'
Racism was culturally conditioned into educated Victorians by such "scientific" parlor tricks as Morton's measuring of brainpans with BB shot to prove that Africans and Indians had small brains, and hence, had deficient minds and intellects.
Meeting the simple Indians of Tierra del Fuego, Darwin wrote: "I could not have believed how wide was the domesticated animal . . .
Darwin's belief that some races (such as blacks) were inferior to others..
'At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world.
The man who some regard as the actual modern 'discoverer' of evolution by natural selection, Alfred Russell Wallace, also espoused essentially the same idea. In his words,
'the weak dying was necessary to improve the race because in every generation the inferior would inevitably be killed off leaving the superior-that is, only the fittest would survive.'
This was the essence of Darwinism, and race differences and fitness of these differences (racism) was at its core.
Is it true that Africans and Indians are savage and have small brains per c darwin?
Racism was culturally conditioned into educated Victorians by such "scientific" parlor tricks as Morton's measuring of brainpans with BB shot to prove that Africans and Indians had small brains, and hence, had deficient minds and intellects.
Meeting the simple Indians of Tierra del Fuego, Darwin wrote: "I could not have believed how wide was the domesticated animal . . .
Darwin's belief that some races (such as blacks) were inferior to others..
'At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world.
The man who some regard as the actual modern 'discoverer' of evolution by natural selection, Alfred Russell Wallace, also espoused essentially the same idea. In his words,
'the weak dying was necessary to improve the race because in every generation the inferior would inevitably be killed off leaving the superior-that is, only the fittest would survive.'
This was the essence of Darwinism, and race differences and fitness of these differences (racism) was at its core.
Is it true that Africans and Indians are savage and have small brains per c darwin?