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en-wikipedia-org-324		Johann Friedrich Blumenbach - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4885	538	61	He did not consider his "degenerative hypothesis" as racist and sharply criticized Christoph Meiners, an early practitioner of scientific racialism, as well as Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, who concluded from autopsies that Africans were an inferior race.[19] Blumenbach wrote three other essays stating non-white peoples were capable of excelling in arts and sciences in reaction against racialists of his time.[20] At the same time, befitting the central idea of the science and medicine of dynamic polarity, it was also the physiological functional identity of what theorists of society or mind called "aspiration." "Blumenbach's Bildungstrieb found quick passage into evolutionary theorizing of the decade following its formulation and in the thinking of the German natural philosophers (p. London/New York: Routledge, 2019; here particularly the essays by Thomas Junker: Blumenbach's theory of human races and the natural unity of humankind and Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke: The origins of scientific racism and Huxley's Rule	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-324.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-324.txt