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===Eugenics in Europe===
 
===Eugenics in Europe===
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German Darwinist [[Ernst Haeckel]] promoted evolution by drawing fraudulent pictures of humans embryos, to pretend that their developmental stages imitate a historical evolution of humans from other species.<ref>''See'' [[Haeckel diagrams]].  These fraudulent drawings remain a part of American textbooks and were only exposed a century later as false by the ''New York Times''.</ref>
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German Darwinist [[Ernst Haeckel]] promoted evolution by drawing fraudulent pictures of humans embryos, to pretend that their developmental stages imitate a historical evolution of humans from other species.<ref group = notes>''See'' [[Haeckel diagrams]].  These fraudulent drawings remain a part of American textbooks and were only exposed a century later as false by the ''New York Times''.</ref>
    
In 1904, Haeckel reiterated the view of Darwin quoted above:  "These lower races … are psychologically nearer to the mammals (apes or dogs) than to civilized Europeans; we must, therefore, assign a totally different value to their lives." <ref>Haeckel, Ernst (1904). ''The Wonders of Life'' (New York: Harper), pp. 56-57.</ref>
 
In 1904, Haeckel reiterated the view of Darwin quoted above:  "These lower races … are psychologically nearer to the mammals (apes or dogs) than to civilized Europeans; we must, therefore, assign a totally different value to their lives." <ref>Haeckel, Ernst (1904). ''The Wonders of Life'' (New York: Harper), pp. 56-57.</ref>
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