Francis Galton, Charles Darwin's cousin, began to form the idea of Eugenics, which is the selective breeding of humans in order to have a race that would be prosperous in the future. He began to compare skulls of different indigenous groups and of African Americans. His goal was to bring awareness of interracial relationships, he justified that the African traits were dominate over the White traits, how Africans were different in there facial features such as high cheekbones, eyes, noses, and ears. The idea of eugenics got so far that even the heads of African Americans were sold to museums all around Europe. This condition was accepted that even post cards were depicted with the concept of skull
Francis Galton, Charles Darwin's cousin, began to form the idea of Eugenics, which is the selective breeding of humans in order to have a race that would be prosperous in the future. He began to compare skulls of different indigenous groups and of African Americans. His goal was to bring awareness of interracial relationships, he justified that the African traits were dominate over the White traits, how Africans were different in there facial features such as high cheekbones, eyes, noses, and ears. The idea of eugenics got so far that even the heads of African Americans were sold to museums all around Europe. This condition was accepted that even post cards were depicted with the concept of skull