‘The American aborigines, Negroes and Europeans differ as much from each other in mind as any three races that can be named; yet I was incessantly struck, whilst living with the Fuegians on board the “Beagle”, with the many little traits of character, showing how similar their minds were to ours.’ – Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871)

Charles Darwin had a complex relationship with race. In his writings, passages reflecting convictions of European........

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