Category: Human Origins
Luskin: Adam and Eve and the Evolving Scientific Consensus
Scientists have become much more reticent about saying the first couple must be no more than a product of the ancient Hebrew imagination.
Günter Bechly: Goodbye to Darwinian Gradualism
Bechly touches on the oldest australopithecine fossil skull ever found, from 3.8 million years ago.
Darwinian Influences on the Alt-Right
The overlapping categories of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and alt-right proponents regularly invoke Darwinism.
Racism Serves Darwinism, Darwinism Serves Racism
Racism was not just an incidental part of Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Rather Darwin considered racial inequality crucial evidence for his theory.
Darwinian Racism: How Evolutionary Theory Shaped Nazi Thinking
It was the spring 1999, a Denver suburb. The day, April 20 — Hitler’s birthday. An 18-year-old white nationalist donned a shirt emblazoned “Natural Selection.”