Tag: Darwinian racism
Darwin’s Sacred Fiction
A book by Adrian Desmond and James Moore holds that Charles Darwin was significantly motivated in his scientific work by abolitionist sentiments.
For Darwin Day, Robert Shedinger Calls Darwin’s Bluff
Tucked away in Charles Darwin’s surviving papers is a lengthy manuscript he never finished.
Darwin and the Smithsonian’s Racist Brain Collection
The motivation for the brain collection was to document how some people were supposedly lower on the evolutionary ladder than others.
Maura: The Woman Whose Brain Was Stolen and Stored by the Smithsonian
Maura was brought from the Philippines to the U.S. in 1904 to take part in one of the public displays of indigenous people at the St. Louis World’s Fair.
Richard Weikart on Racism, Darwinism, and Christianity
If living things are only the result of chance processes, does human life have any intrinsic value?