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Gould pointed out that some anthropologists were not above falsifying
their data to prove the "superiority" of the white race. According to
Gould, the method they used most was falsifying the brain size of the fos-
silised skulls they found. Gould mentions in his book that, assuming
brain size had something to do with intelligence, many anthropologists
intentionally exaggerated the size of Caucasian skulls and underestimat-
ed the size of skulls from Blacks and Indians. 14
In his book Ever Since Darwin, Gould explains the unbelievable
claims the Darwinists undertook to demonstrate that some races were
inferior.
Haeckel and his colleagues also invoked recapitulation to affirm the racial
superiority of northern European whites. They scoured the evidence of
human anatomy and behaviour, using everything they could find from
brains to belly buttons. Herbert Spencer wrote that "the intellectual traits of
the uncivilized.. are traits recurring in the children of the civilized." Carl
Vogt said it more strongly in 1864: "The grown up Negro partakes, as
regards his intellectual faculties, of the nature of the
child… Some tribes have founded states, possessing a
peculiar organization, but, as to the rest, we may bold-
ly assert that the whole race has, neither in the past nor
in the present, performed anything tending to the
progress of humanity or worthy of preservation." 15
And the French medical anatomist Etienne
Serres really did argue that black males are prim-
itive because their belly buttons were in
a lower level.
Darwin's contemporary, the
evolutionist Havelock Ellis, sup-
ported the distinction between
superior and inferior races with an
alleged "scientific" explanation, say-
Stephen Jay Gould and ing:
his book which revealed
Darwin's racist side.