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==Darwin's Racism==
 
==Darwin's Racism==
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''For more information please see'': [[Social effects of the theory of evolution]]
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Darwin was a racist just like 99% of the white people at that time but it is notable that he was against slavery.
 
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Charles Darwin wrote in his work  ''[[The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex]]'':
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{{cquote|At some future period not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes...will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest Allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as the baboon, instead of as now between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla.<ref>http://www.aim.org/wls/90/</ref><ref name="DoM6">[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/dscmn10.txt The Descent of Man], chapter VI</ref>}}
      
==Darwin's Belief in Male Superiority==
 
==Darwin's Belief in Male Superiority==

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