Nineteenth-century anthropologists, when comparing different human societies
A) were mostly racists.
B) were all evolutionists.
C) denied that important anthropological differences existed.
D) agreed on the superiority of Europeans.
E) used the Bible as a reference for many of their theories.
Ans: D
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