Tag: Darwinism
Origin of Species: From Discussion Document to Nihilist Dogma
A colleague remarked to me (in an uncharacteristically unscholarly disclosure) that he could not share my interest in “all this old 19th-century stuff.”
Darwin and the Victorian Culture Wars
As Alec Ryrie pointed out in his history of Doubt, “intellectuals and philosophers may think they make the weather, but they are more often driven by it.”
Darwinian Influences on the Alt-Right
The overlapping categories of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and alt-right proponents regularly invoke Darwinism.
Darwinism in Nazi Propaganda
The authors considered human evolution especially important, because they believed it supported their vision of racial inequality.
Will Earth BioGenome Project Vindicate Darwin?
Compare the latest project to sequence everything to other megaprojects that may or may not answer evolutionary questions.