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hough racism can be found throughout history, Darwin
was the first to give it an alleged scientific validity. The
subtitle of The Origin of Species was The Preservation of
Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Darwin's writings about “the
preservation of favored races,” and in particular the unscientific
claims in his The Descent of Man, lent support to the Nazis' erroneous

belief in the superiority of Aryan race, and a similar British belief
about the Anglo-Saxons. In addition, Darwin's theory of natural se-
lection spoke of a fight to the death, a “law of the jungle.” Applying it
to human societies made conflict and war inevitable between races
and nations. A great many prominent figures of the time, from war-