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Scientific racism is the idea to use science to promote racism. This is different from using the scientific method, and simply pointing out differences between races. The scientific method does not claim that one race is "better" than another, it may simply show differences between the races.

Very often, the term is also used for different theories of anthropology and other closely-related disciplines to create evidence, which would allow to classify humans into groups. These groups are then called "races", and some think it is possible to claim that one race is superior to another. Most of these theories were common between 1880 and 1930, in a period called New Imperialism.

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  • Urville-Patagonians3

    Homo monstrosus, or Patagonian giants, from Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Océanie (Voyage to the South Pole, and in Oceania), by Jules Dumont d'Urville

  • John Hunter by John Jackson

    John Hunter. Painted by John Jackson in 1813, after an original by Sir Joshua Reynolds, who exhibited his painting at the Royal Academy in 1786.

  • Charles White, physician (1728–1813) (cropped)

    Charles White

  • Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

    Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

  • Christoph Meiners

    Christoph Meiners

  • Georges Cuvier large

    Georges Cuvier

  • Arthur Schopenhauer by J Schäfer, 1859b

    Arthur Schopenhauer

  • Scientific racism irish

    A late-19th-century illustration by H. Strickland Constable shows an alleged similarity between "Irish Iberian" and "Negro" features in contrast to the higher "Anglo-Teutonic".

  • Arthur de Gobineau

    Portrait of Arthur de Gobineau by the Comtesse de la Tour, 1876

  • Charles Darwin by Julia Margaret Cameron 3

    Charles Darwin in 1868

  • H H Risley

    Herbert Hope Risley

  • ErnstHaeckel

    Ernst Haeckel

  • Petrus-Camper-(professor)

    Pieter Camper

  • Morton drawing

    Racialist differences: "a Negro head ... a Caucasian skull ... a Mongol head", Samuel George Morton, 1839

  • Ripley map of cephalic index in Europe

    Cephalic Index. William Z. Ripley's European cephalic index map, The Races of Europe (1899).

  • Joseph Deniker

    Joseph Deniker

  • Madison Grant

    Madison Grant, creator of the "Nordic race" term

  • Samuelcartwright

    Samuel Cartwright, M.D.

  • Francis Galton2

    Francis Galton in his later years

  • Dean's house Uppsala Sweden 001

    The Swedish State Institute for Racial Biology, founded in 1922, was the world's first government-funded institute performing research into racial biology. It was housed in what is now the Dean's house at Uppsala and was closed down in 1958.

  • Bundesarchiv Bild 102-16748, Ausstellung "Wunder des Lebens"

    Nazi poster promoting eugenics

  • Lothrop Stoddard

    Lothrop Stoddard (1883–1950)

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Racismo científico para niños

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