“I didn’t argue anything. . .I asked you a question. Do you think Darwin was a great thinker even when he conjectured that darker skinned people were less evolved than lighter skinned humans?”
Three words:
“The Bell Curve”
- John
People are confusing the social/cultural concept of “evolved” with evolutionary success. By the metric of evolutionary success the darker ones skin the more successful you are. They of darker skin are generally producing far more offspring, passing on genetic code and successfully encroaching into environments that they previously didn’t inhabit currently.
You can make (primarily if secular) the argument also that they’re more socially/culturally evolved because the lighter skinned of humanity ended up attaining a level of material wealth and prosperity that collectively has “guilt tripped” them into importing mass numbers of their middle latitude competitors amongst themselves where they will practically in the evolutionary blink of an eye be genetically assimilated (barring a catastrophic conflict that results in a massive population crash).
Overall that will probably result in hardier humans. Now, as conscious beings though, that resultant world probably is not going to be a very gratifying existence for those who value individualism and freedom.