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Arthur Keith est un anatomiste et anthropologue britannique et un partisan du racisme scientifique. Il est membre puis professeur Hunterian et conservateur du Hunterian Museum du Collège royal de chirurgie,. Il est un fervent partisan de l'Homme de Piltdown, mais reconnait finalement qu'il s'agissait d'un faux peu de temps avant sa mort. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. février 1866 – 7. janvier 1955
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“From what we know of living anthropoids, we may infer that the chief mental activities of the group will be three in number—namely, those concerning with mating, maternity, and social behaviour. Each group will be attached to a territory and maintain its isolation.”

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[A New Theory of Human Evolution, 1949, 207, Philosophical Library, https://books.google.com/books?id=DP9RAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=philosophy] (originally publisher in 1948)

“We have to face the fact that we are the descendants of apelike ancestors. The truth, at first sight, is often ugly and repulsive to our personal feelings, but when it is the truth, its ultimate effects on us are always salutary. ...
... Man's brain does not stand as a thing apart; it is the culmination of an ascending series. There is no part of it and no function manifested by it that cannot be traced to humble beginnings lower in the animal scale. And what we postulate for man's brain we must in all justice apply to that of the ape, the dog, and all other beasts.”

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[Chapter X, Living Philosophies, 149, 1931, Simon & Schuster]