"Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution."
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Arthur Keith, (1946) Essays on Human Evolution. p. 68
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Arthur Keith
Sir Arthur Keith FRS (5 February 1866 – 7 January 1955) was a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist, and a proponent of scientific racism. He was a fellow and later the Hunterian Professor and conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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