Tag: Richard Owen
Denton: Animal Body Types as “Adaptive Masks”
These recurrent forms extend from original “primal patterns,” much as argued by such 19th-century opponents of Darwinism as Richard Owen and Louis Agassiz.
Man, with His Special Place in Nature, Was Designed to Use Fire
Only a special type of being very close to our own biological design could have taken the first and vital step to technological enlightenment, fire-making.
At the Smithsonian, the Nation’s Museum, It’s All Darwin, All the Time
At the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Charles Darwin dominates almost every exhibit.
Richard Owen and Charles Darwin on Race: A Study in Contrasts
Darwin was unquestionably a racist, arguing that civilization would advance even at the cost of inevitable racial extermination.
Charles Darwin: Racist Spokesman for Anglo-Male Superiority?
The University of Sheffield’s teaching and research handbook has declared Charles Darwin a “racist.”