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THE gradual degeneracy of savage man from a higher type is a fact which an eminent author states in his letter in NATURE (vol. x. p. 146) to be difficult of belief. He wonders that Dr. Martius should say “the Americans are not a wild race, they are a race run wild and degraded.”
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EDKINS, J. The Degeneracy of Man. Nature 10, 163–164 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010163b0
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