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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 an historical evolution of humans from other species.<ref>''See'' [[Haeckel Fraud]].  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 an historical evolution of humans from other species.<ref>''See'' [[Haeckel Fraud]].  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>Ernst Haeckel, The Wonders of Life (New York: Harper 1904), 56-57 (emphasis added).</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>Ernst Haeckel, The Wonders of Life (New York: Harper 1904), 56-57 (emphasis added).</ref>
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