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Zeal they had, but it was racist zeal not Darwinist. Evolution through natural selection would make one assume that each human population was suited to the climate its recent ancestors had come from. Darwin, who was quite progressive for a man of his day (he related the bravery of a woman who killed herself rather than submit to slavery and questioned that if her skin where white wouldn't her sacrifice be compared to a Roman matron rather than brute animal obstinacy in the Voyage of the Beagle), Darwin was convinced by the shoddy "science" of racist skull shapers that some human populations would eventually prove unfit or evolve. Modern science shows that there is very little actual genetic difference and that we are all more recently one people than anyone had imagined.

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Zeal they had, but it was racist zeal not Darwinist.

Fair enough, but Darwinism provided the structure and focus for their racism much as Chrstianity provides a structure and focus for some racist groups in the US today.