May 7, 1999

Darwinism and Racist Ideologies; the Individual and the Artist; the 'Complex and Curious Activity' of Going Swimming in a Pool

Most evolutionary biologists don't even want to think about the degree to which Darwinism contributed to the development of racist ideologies in the modern world. They don't really deal with the historical fact that Darwin and Galton accepted the concepts of superior and inferior races, and that Galton was particularly concerned to document the inferiority of the "Negro" and the Australian aborigine. ... Evolutionary