Tag: Peter Bowler

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 26, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, evolution, history, John William Draper, Joseph Hooker, Linnaean Society, natural selection, Nature (journal), On the Origin of Species, Peter Bowler, propaganda, proselytizing, Royal Society, Samuel Wilberforce, Thomas Henry Huxley, X Club}

Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: The Role of Propaganda

_{Neil Thomas
August 26, 2022

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Science

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To isolate and quantify the factors which ultimately led to the acceptance of Darwinian ideas is not a straightforward task. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, Britain, Down House, evolution, friendship, George Romanes, history, HMS Beagle, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, natural selection, Oxbridge, Peter Bowler, Richard Owen, Robert Chambers, Samuel Wilberforce, sociologists, Thomas Huxley, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Westminster Abbey, William Whewell}

Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: Darwin and the English Class System

_{Neil Thomas
August 24, 2022

Evolution, Science

7}

The theory of natural selection was the co-discovery of two men, but by the mid 1860s one of its progenitors began to reject his own theory. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 8, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Dean Kenyon, evolution, Fred Hoyle, Isaac Newton, James Hutton, James Thomson, On the Origin of Species, Percival Davis, Peter Bowler, Principles of Geology, Robert Elsmere, Theory of the Earth, Thomas Huxley, William Shakespeare}

Was Darwinian Theory Based on a False Analogy to Geology?

_{Neil Thomas
June 8, 2022

Evolution, Geology, Physical Sciences

10}

Given the degree of discipleship for Sir Charles, Darwin fully expected to receive Lyell’s commendation for his labors. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 10, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Asa Gray, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwin Deleted, Down House, Emma Darwin, evolution, John Murray, Joseph Hooker, Journal of Researches, Linnean Society, On the Origin of Species, Peter Bowler, Quarterly Review, Southeast Asia, Ternate, Whitwell Elwin, William Darwin Fox}

Darwin’s Reticence: How on Earth Did the Origin of Species Ever Get Published?

_{Robert Shedinger
February 10, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

8}

Even Darwin would be aghast at what the world has made of a mere abstract that he was almost pathologically ambivalent about ever publishing. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 2, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Aryan race, Columbine High School, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, disabled, Ernst Haeckel, eugenics, Europeans, evolution, Führer, genocide, Germany, Indiana, living space, Michael Ruse, natural selection, Nazis, neo-Nazis, Nordic race, Peter Bowler, Racism, Robert Richards, Social Darwinism, Third Reich, white nationalism}

Darwinian Racism: How Evolutionary Theory Shaped Nazi Thinking

_{Richard Weikart
February 2, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

10}

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.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 11, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, African Americans, Anglo-Saxons, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Christopher E. Cosans, Civil War, Darwinism, Edward Drinker Cope, Eva Jablonka, evolution, evolutionary anthropology, Henrika Kuklik, James Moore, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Josiah Clark Nott, Kyla Schuller, Lamarckian theory, Livia Gershon, Louis Agassiz, Peter Bowler, Racism, Rupert Sheldrake, Rutgers University, Samuel George Morton, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley, William Graham, women’s suffrage, Yoav Soen}

Distancing Darwin from Racism Is a Fool’s Errand

_{Michael Flannery
July 11, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

10}

“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
February 10, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adam Gopnik, Anglo-Saxons, Applied Eugenics, Artificial Selection, Black History Month, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Darwin Day, Darwin Deleted, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, eugenics, Europeans, extermination, humankind, On the Origin of Species, Paul Broca, Peter Bowler, racial equality, racial superiority, Racism, The Descent of Man, William Graham}

Darwin and Race: Three Strikes, He’s Out

_{Michael Flannery
February 10, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

7}

February is Black History Month, and this week, Friday, February 12, is Darwin Day — the birthday of Charles Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 23, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, African Americans, Anglo-Saxons, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Christopher E. Cosans, Civil War, Darwinism, Edward Drinker Cope, Eva Jablonka, evolution, evolutionary anthropology, Henrika Kuklik, James Moore, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Josiah Clark Nott, Kyla Schuller, Lamarckian theory, Livia Gershon, Louis Agassiz, Peter Bowler, Racism, Rupert Sheldrake, Rutgers University, Samuel George Morton, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley, William Graham, women’s suffrage, Yoav Soen}

Distancing Darwin from Racism Is a Fool’s Errand

_{Michael Flannery
November 23, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution

9}

“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.” Read More ›

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Date
September 2, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, evolution, intelligent evolution, materialism, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Flannery, natural selection, Peter Bowler, Social Darwinism, teleology, The World of Life, Tom Wolfe, University of Pennsylvania, William A. Dembski}

Dembski: “Recent Studies Have Vindicated Wallace” Over Darwin

_{Science and Culture
September 2, 2020

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

3}

“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.” Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 7, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, Alfred Tennyson, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, élan vital, evolution, evolutionary biology, Galileo Galilei, Genetics (journal), George Bernard Shaw, George Eliot, Harvard School of Public Health, heliocentric model, Henri Bergson, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John Cairns, Joseph Conrad, Karl Marx, Max Delbrück, Nicolaus Copernicus, Peter Bowler, Ptolemaic system, randomness, religion, Salvador Luria, Sigmund Freud, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Kuhn}

The Triumphalism of Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
July 7, 2020

Evolution, Science Education

7}

The oversimplification here is staggering (Darwin and women’s rights?!) and would take an entire book to unpack. Read More ›