Originally posted by eThneoLgrRnaeFrom the Royal Society... ffs, more evidence fo why youtube videos are not a good source of info.
Look up the original sub-title of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" book before it was removed from the updated newer versions.He may not have specifically said that the white race was the "most evolved" but it was clear from the book's sub-title that he thought that certain races were "more favored" than others.
Also keep in mind the year when the book was published: 1859.
Remember what was going on in that time period?
It's not hard to draw a conclusion from that exactly which "race" he thought was the most evolved.
durwank
The term ‘race’ was a synonym for ‘variety’, ‘breed’ or ‘form’. Surprisingly, it (or the plural ‘races’) was used much less frequently in the text of The Origin (in this particular meaning) than ‘variety’ (or ‘varieties’), ‘breed(s)’ or ‘form(s)’. Furthermore, ‘race’ had anthropological connotations, whereas Darwin avoided, in The Origin, the subject of humans, ‘as so surrounded with prejudices’.58 The question of human races was even ‘blowing up as an emotive issue in the 1850s’.59 So why did Darwin choose this particular, not unproblematic word for his subtitle instead of a more neutral and, in the text of The Origin, more common alternative such as ‘variety’?60 One possible explanation is that he wanted to make the link with the artificial selection of races of domesticated plants and animals (for a second possible explanation, see below). Indeed, in the text of The Origin, he often used the phrase ‘domestic race’. Also, the second part of his Essay of 1844 was headed ‘On the evidence favourable and opposed to the view that species are naturally formed races, descended from common stocks’ (my italics). Likewise, in his Sketch of 1842, he promised that a discussion of ‘whether the characters and relations of animated beings are such as favour the idea of wild species being races descended from a common stock’ would form ‘the second part of this sketch’.61
You are parody trolling but obviously Darwinian concepts are completed outdated anyway as he had no knowledge of the process of Transmission, Mendel was needed for that or how the code worked...