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Evolution and Racism
A quote from H.F. Osborn, the most prominent American anthropologist of the first half of the twentieth century, director of the American Museum of Natural History, and evolutionist.
"The Negroid stock is even more ancient than the Caucasian and Mongolian, as may be proved by an examination not only of the brain, of the hair, of the bodily characters, such as the teeth, the genitalia, the sense organs, but of the instincts, the intelligence. The standard of intelligence of the average adult Negro is similar to that of the eleven-year old youth of the species Homo Sapiens."
Henry Fairfield Osborn, "The Evolution of Human Races," Natural History, Jan./Feb. 1926. Reprinted in Natural History 89 (April 1980): 129.
From: Henry Morris, The Long War Against God, (Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker, 1989), 62