Theorists in such diverse fields as anatomy, linguistics,
and ethnology, making feature-by-feature comparisons of their subject matters,
were beginning to suspect that similarities between animals, languages, and
folkways were the result of processes or laws unknown to them then.
For them, the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was the
epiphany of everything they had begun to suspect. Darwin himself arrived at his
conclusions through comparison of species he had seen in agronomy and in the
wild.
The study (sometimes scientific, often not) of people and
ethnicities became very popular early last century.
The Basques, a unique people in Europe, were often portrayed
on postcards, pointing out various characteristics in their appearance.
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