"No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics."
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Franz Boas
Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 22, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology".
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