Racial Evolution 101.2

"It appears as if the posterior molar or wisdom-teeth were tending to become rudimentary in the more civilised races of man. These teeth are rather smaller than the other molars, as is likewise the case with the corresponding teeth in the chimpanzee and orang; and they have only two separate fangs....

In the Melanian races, on the other hand, the wisdom-teeth are usually furnished with three separate fangs, and are generally sound; they also differ from the other molars in size, less than in the Caucasian races. Schaaffhausen accounts for this difference between the races by "the posterior dental portion of the jaw being always shortened" in those that are civilised and this shortening may, I presume, be attributed to civilised men habitually feeding on soft, cooked food, and thus using their jaws less."

- Charles Darwin, "THE DESCENT of MAN, and Selection in Relation to Sex." Princeton University Press, 1981, Chapter 1, Page 26
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1. What further evolutionary associations may we 'safely' presume from these racial observations about the 'different' capacities exhibited by various Humans around the world to chew?

 

UTEOTW:

"You are trying to show that Darwin was racist using a quote where he says the teeth of "civilised races of man" are closer to apes than the teeth of "the Melanian races?" I don't get it.

Furthermore, observation shows that blacks and whites do indeed have dental differences. What is racist about pointing that out?"
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Nothing, as long as you're not attempting to prove that any Human Race or Species ever descended from non-human ape-like creatures in Africa like Darwin was.


that observation doesn't lead you believe

 

UTE:

"Have you ever read any part of Darwin's writings other than what you find quoted on YEC web sites?"
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I don't have to go to YEC websites. I've got Darwin's Descent of Man in my very own sticky and greedy fingers and I read it every day.

His books are in the public domain and one can copy excerpts from them with the greatest of Internet ease.

 

I'm not a YECer although I do believe in ID.

 

Since Time is "relative" according to Einstein I differentiate between observable and recorded Earth-time in History, and imaginary Space-Time based on the Speed of Light as a given Constant.

Everyone has the right to consider the morphological 'evidence' and phrenological 'claims' which anthropaleontologists have presented to the public in skillful drawings, paintings and plaster-cast exhibitions as 'evidence' of Human evolution for over 100 years now, and to draw their own conclusions and form their own opinions about the 'data' used as 'evidence.'

Even Time can 'fly' when your having fun.

 

I enjoy watching false idols topple like Saddam Hussein recently almost as much as I enjoy deconstructing evolutionists. I also enjoy reading creative and interpretive writings like Darwin's racial thesis on man.

I only mess with people who historically confuse Humans with non-human African apes on the basis of Darwin's original racial associations and assertions.

I have no idea how old the earth is or the age of the universe either any more than you do. As for our common descent from African treetops once upon a time so very long ago - it sounds like modern mythology or an adult fairy tale.

 

UTEOTW:
My short history of the world began in March, 1941. In 1963 I moved from Toronto to NYC and read a lot of books and stories about world history and "the world we live in." It's all in the mind, you know, so that's what you're dealing with.

The human 'evidence' has only been moved to the 'species' level lately as a result of the disastrous consequences of Darwin's thinking about human evoltion in racial terms. There is no fossil and genetic evidence which clearly show us to be apes and to have evolved from an ape ancestor. That's evolutionary propaganda if not a fairy tale.

It would be interesting to follow up on the evolution of Darwin's original racial theories and date the replacement of his racial types with human speciation in the historical evolutionary literature. Darwin wrote a lot about the problem of human speciation.

I'll post something on it soon.

 

Depends what history books you read. Human history or natural history. I prefer biographic and geographic history to biological and geological fantasy and science fiction.

Why should I dispute something that isn't there?

Here's a peom:

Found Darwin's ape-man yesterday.
Twas in his mind, I'm sad to say.
From "savage races" in Africa
He thought he was a Pitheca.

I love reading Darwin. He's so imaginative and creative in his writing.

Better than Jules Verne, H. G. Welles and Arthur Conan Doyle put together.

 

I'll discuss Darwinian racial evolution anytime, anywhere and with anyone.

I thought that was the topic we were discussing.

Seriously.