2560px-Smithsonian_Institution_National_Museum_of_Natural_History_(7508870948) Type post Author Andrew McDiarmid Date August 31, 2023 CategoriesBioethicsEvolutionHuman Origins and Anthropology Tagged , Aleš Hrdlička, brains, Darwinian racism, documentary, evolution, evolutionary ladder, human origins, ID the Future, indigenous peoples, John West, Maryland, Michael Medved, podcast, Smithsonian Institution, Washington Post Darwin and the Smithsonian’s Racist Brain Collection Andrew McDiarmid August 31, 2023 Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology 1 The motivation for the brain collection was to document how some people were supposedly lower on the evolutionary ladder than others. Read More ›
Philippine_Exposition_at_World's_Fair_St._Louis_1904 Type post Author John G. West Date August 18, 2023 CategoriesBioethicsEvolutionHuman Origins and Anthropology Tagged , Aleš Hrdlička, brains, Darwinian racism, evolutionary ladder, Human Zoos, scientific racism, Smithsonian Institution, St. Louis, St. Louis World's Fair, Washington Post, Washington University, whites, YouTube videos Maura: The Woman Whose Brain Was Stolen and Stored by the Smithsonian John G. West August 18, 2023 Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology 4 Maura was brought from the Philippines to the U.S. in 1904 to take part in one of the public displays of indigenous people at the St. Louis World’s Fair. Read More ›
