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Originally posted by steerpikeTrue, and a shame, but not really surprising. People's views normally do reflect the society they live in. And Darwin was sadly right that some races would be exterminated by others, although wrong in assuming that cultural differences were a result of genetics.
Highly evovled maybe -but his ideas on race were typical of most nineteenth century Europeans.
"The variability or diversity of the mental faculties in men of the same race, not to mention the greater differences between the men of di ...[text shortened]... The break between men and his nearest allies will then be wider."
Hardly surprising though that someone who spent his life exploring the earliest ideas of genetic variation would be just a tiny bit genetically deterministic in his outlook.
Rich.