Tag: Peter Bowler
Darwin’s Reticence: How on Earth Did the Origin of Species Ever Get Published?
Even Darwin would be aghast at what the world has made of a mere abstract that he was almost pathologically ambivalent about ever publishing.
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.”
Distancing Darwin from Racism Is a Fool’s Errand
“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.”
Darwin and Race: Three Strikes, He’s Out
February is Black History Month, and this week, Friday, February 12, is Darwin Day — the birthday of Charles Darwin.
Distancing Darwin from Racism Is a Fool’s Errand
“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.”