As evidence of racism in classification systems, Johann Blumenbach (1752-1840):
a. threw out the Linnaean classification system.
b. judged the ideal type of human skull to be from sub-Saharan Africa.
c. believed that Caucasians were closer to the original ideal humans.
d. classified Europeans and Sub-Saharan Africans together.
e. Blumenbach was the only 18th scholar to avoid a racist classification system.
ANSWER: b
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