Tag: Victorian England
Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present
If we want to effectively explain human behavior in all its messy richness, we would do well to look beyond this box of just-so stories.
How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin: A Coda
After seeing my recent book through to publication, I began to experience a certain gnawing feeling.
The Casual Racism of Charles Darwin
It is certainly startling to see the N-word cropping up in Darwin’s letters, but this is not the only place.
Charles Darwin in Light of Black History Month
Was Darwin’s racism purely a function of his time and place, Victorian England? Historian Michael Flannery says no.
Shaw, Scientism, and Darwinism
George Bernard Shaw’s positive criterion by which to measure and ridicule folly and vice was fatally ambiguous, eclectic, and inconstant.