Except from "The Blank Slate" - Steven Pinker

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Racial prejudice, too, had a scientific patina. Darwin's theory of evolution was commonly misinterpreted as an explanation of intellectual and moral progress rather than an explanation of how living things adapt to an ecological niche. The nonwhite races, it was easy to think, were rungs on an evolutionary ladder between the apes and the Europeans.

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teilo 10 years, 11 months ago
That is because Darwin himself applied the theories of Natural Selection to human races, and viewed the ascendancy of white Europeans as an example of Natural Selection at work.

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