"Prior to Darwin, it was difficult to argue against the Judeo-Christian
conception of the unity of man, based on the single creation of Adam
and Eve. Darwin's theory suggested that humans had evolved over
hundreds of thousands, even millions of years, and that the races of
men had diverged while adapting to the particularities of local
conditions. The impact of Darwin's theory was enormous."
--Robert N. Proctor (Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis [1988]
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