Darwin stated that euro-caucasion was innately superior in the ORIGIN OF SPECIES; know why?

Answer 1

Virtually all Englishmen in Darwin's time viewed blacks as culturally and intellectually inferior to Europeans. Some men of that time (such as Louis Agassiz, a staunch creationist) went so far as to say they were a different species. Charles Darwin was a product of his times and no doubt viewed non-Europeans as inferior in ways, but he was far more liberal than most: He vehemently opposed slavery (Darwin 1913, especially chap. 21), and he contributed to missionary work to better the condition of the native Tierra del Fuegans. He treated people of all races with compassion.


The mention of "favoured races" in the subtitle of Origin of Species merely refers to variations within species which survive to leave more offspring. It does not imply racism.


The views of Darwin, or of any person, are irrelevant to the fact of evolution. Evolution is based on evidence, not on people's opinions.

Answer 2

What race was Darwin? Yeah, that pretty answers why right there. However, the caucasion, living in the vastly different climate of Europe would have needed to adapt(and they did). I don't remember all the adaptations, but the skin-color change was simply to allow the body to absorb more sunlight where there was less of it.

Answer 3

Darwin didn't say this. Care to quote the passage? "Origin of Species" does not touch on the origin of man at all; it was not until the "Descent of Man" did Darwin discuss man's origins, and then he never postulated anything like what you are describing. Don't malign Darwin to promote your own racist agenda.

Answer 4

I haven;t read it but I would like to hazard a guess. He thought that groups that could change to survive in hostile frozen areas meant that all the inferior groups died off in northern Europe and only the best of the best mutations lived long enough to procreate

Answer 5

Why not read the book?