Tag: Ernst Haeckel
The Barbarian Within: Darwinism and the Secular Script for Masculinity
Edgar Rice Burroughs set his Tarzan series (1912) in the African jungle. Because of Tarzan’s wild upbringing, he avoids the debilitating forces of civilization.
Peer-Reviewed Paper Shows Vertebrate Embryonic Variation Contradicts Common Ancestry
Evolutionary biologists often argue that vertebrate embryos develop in highly similar manners, reflecting their common ancestry.
Origin of Species — A Safe Book in the South?
We can assume that this writer would have been a Connecticut Yankee, a strong opponent of the South and slavery.
As Many Opinions as There Are Men?
The ideas of Ernst Haeckel, in his youth a hardline Darwinian materialist, were to evolve to a surprising degree.
Darwinism in Nazi Propaganda
The authors considered human evolution especially important, because they believed it supported their vision of racial inequality.