Cuvier Day Fruit Bat Though he didn’t promote geological biblical literalism, Cuvier was a Protestant. He did believe that humans were descended from Adam and Eve…or at least, Caucasians were. He believed human races to be like variants within a species. You know, like the variations within, for example, tigers. Siberian tigers are different from Bengal tigers are different from South China tigers; they all can inter-breed, but they developed separately and are distinct subspecies. Cuvier believed that there were three races of human - Caucasian (white), Mongolian (Asian), and Ethiopian (black).

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Though he didn’t promote geological biblical literalism, Cuvier was a Protestant. He did believe that humans were descended from Adam and Eve…or at least, Caucasians were. He believed human races to be like variants within a species. You know, like the variations within, for example, tigers. Siberian tigers are different from Bengal tigers are different from South China tigers; they all can inter-breed, but they developed separately and are distinct subspecies.

Cuvier believed that there were three races of human - Caucasian (white), Mongolian (Asian), and Ethiopian (black).

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