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Once Upon a Time
There Was Darwinism

he thought, were physically best suited to being
compared to human beings. In his book, he developed
his racial arguments, claming that some of the world's sup-

posedly "primitive races" were proof of evolution. (However,
modern genetics has disproved these racial views shared by
Darwin and other evolutionists of the time.)
From the last quarter of the 19th century, almost a whole sci-
ence of paleoanthropology devoted itself to the task of finding fos-
sils to prove this imaginary theory of evolution, and many who
accepted Darwinism started digging to find the "missing link" be-

tween apes and human beings.
The great discovery they had hoped for was made in England

A picture sho wing the ex ca va ti ons at Pilt down, birthp la ce of the "Pilt down
Man" scan dal

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