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In the Nineteenth Century the Leading French Anatomist Paul Broca

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In the nineteenth century the leading French anatomist Paul Broca broke new ground in understanding how the brain works, yet he was also a leading racist thinker who argued that:


A) "European eyes" were associated with "superior stature, comely symmetry of the parts of the body, and good features in the face."
B) black skin and woolly hair were associated with inferior intelligence, while white skin and straight hair were "equipment of the highest [intelligence] groups."
C) the aristocratic "French race" descended from the invader Germanic Franks dominated blacks by innate right of conquest.
D) black people were "much inferior" to white people in reason, comprehension, and imagination.
E) All the above

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