The western scientists had their own sins. Many who presumed that Darwin’s ideas of evolution confirmed the social status quo—the superiority of the rich to the poor, the aristocratic to the plebeian, the white to the nonwhite—became eugenicists, advocates of the notion of inferior and superior human groups and sometimes of ways of cultivating the latter and eradicating the former through punitive social controls or outright genocide.
Eugenics
