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he alleged scientific support that Social Darwinism pro-
vided for racism, fascism and imperialism, as well as com-
munism, is a familiar subject that has been much written about. But
one lesser known fact is that a great many Darwinists, including
Charles Darwin himself, have believed in the error that women are
biologically and mentally inferior to men. The mental difference that
Darwinists claim to exist between the genders is of such a dimension
that some evolutionists even divided them into different physical
species: men being Homo frontalis and women Homo parietalis. 137