This article argues that Palacios proposes the essential elements for a systematical philosophical anthropology, under the influence of his time, mainly evolutionism and racism, but different while trying to give a wide perspective of racial mix as the result of cultural contamination by contact and the sociocultural mutation as a result. Raza Chilena is a book that contains a holistic hypothesis that link all forms of science, history, biology, sociology, anthropology and linguistics available in the 19th century Chile.
Alvarado, M., & Fernández, H. (2011). A foundational narration for a chilean philosophical anthopology: Nicolas Palacios’s chilean race. Cinta De Moebio. Revista De Epistemología De Ciencias Sociales, (40). Retrieved from https://revistas.uchile.cl/index.php/CDM/article/view/11071
