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To: Ichneumon
"Darwin's racist claim"

As I recall, there is a theory put forth in "The Descent of Man" about differences in evolutionary level for the various races of man.

88 posted on 02/10/2003 2:20:35 PM PST by MEGoody
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To: MEGoody
As I recall, there is a theory put forth in "The Descent of Man" about differences in evolutionary level for the various races of man.

No, Darwin concluded that all races were the same species.

93 posted on 02/10/2003 2:45:01 PM PST by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas)
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To: MEGoody
As I recall, there is a theory put forth in "The Descent of Man" about differences in evolutionary level for the various races of man.

There are many throughout his writings, here's one:

In man the frontal bone consists of a single piece, but in the embryo, and in children, and in almost all the lower mammals, it consists of two pieces separated by a distinct suture. This suture occasionally persists more or less distinctly in man after maturity; and more frequently in ancient than in recent crania, especially, as Canestrini has observed, in those exhumed from the Drift, and belonging to the brachycephalic type. Here again he comes to the same nclusion as in the analogous case of the malar bones. In this, and other instances presently to be given, the cause of ancient races approaching the lower animals in certain characters more frequently than do the modern races, appears to be, that the latter stand at a somewhat greater distance in the long line of descent from their early semi-human progenitors.
Darwin, Descent of Man, Chapter 2.

126 posted on 02/10/2003 7:25:48 PM PST by gore3000
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