Tag: Ernst Haeckel
“Evidence for Evolution”? Khan Academy Pushes Haeckel’s Phony Embryo Drawings
I’ve watched many Khan Academy videos over the years — sometimes just for fun, and sometimes to advise teachers on whether they are good tools to use.
Listen: How Darwinism Fueled Nazi Racism, White Nationalism
Since Darwin was a peaceable Victorian gentleman and naturalist, what connection could there be between him and Hitler and contemporary white nationalism?
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.”
New Book Explores Darwinian Racism, Then and Now
To hear some tell it, Adolf Hitler was a Christian creationist who rejected Darwinian evolution.
So, Does Ontogeny Recapitulate Phylogeny? Nope
When I was younger, my family lived next-door to a retired dentist named Max. Before entering dentistry, Max studied biology at UC Berkeley.