Tag: Robert Richards

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Age of Exploration, animals, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, civilization, Darwinism, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, French Revolution, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lord Monboddo, Michael Flannery, P.T. Barnum, philosophers, Robert Richards, University of Chicago, worldview}

Before Darwin — How Evolution Evolved

_{Daniel Witt
May 28, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Life Sciences

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The soil was prepared — soon, seeds were sprouting. In roughly the third quarter of the 18th century, evolutionary theories of biology proliferated. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 2, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Columbine High School, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, disabled, Ernst Haeckel, eugenics, Europeans, evolution, genocide, Germany, Indiana, 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

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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
April 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwinian evolution, Herbert Spencer, James Moore, Jeffrey O’Connell, Michael Ruse, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Richard Weikart, Robert Richards, Social Darwinism}

Some Additional Comments on Social Darwinism

_{Michael Flannery
April 27, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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O’Connell and Ruse’s failure to engage deeply and fully with the historiography of this question makes it hard to take their effort seriously. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 23, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, anthropologists, anti-Semitism, Arthur Schopenhauer, biologists, Cambridge University Press, Christianity, Darwinism, eugenics, euthanasia, Friedrich Nietzsche, From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, human evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, Mein Kampf, Michael Ruse, militarism, Nazism, Robert Richards, Social Darwinism}

New Book: Social Darwinism and “The Hitler Problem”

_{Richard Weikart
April 23, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

7}

I have clearly argued in all my works that Hitler was an eclectic thinker who drew on many different intellectual influences — some of them contradictory. Read More ›

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Date
November 5, 2016

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, __nedited, Adolf Hitler, Darwinism, evolutionary ethics, Expelled (movie), From Darwin to Hitler, Richard Weikart, Robert Richards, Social Darwinism, the narrative}

Robert Richards and Evolutionary Apologetics

_{Science and Culture
November 5, 2016

Ethics, Evolution, History of Science

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That Darwinism has not coincidentally been put to evil ends would seem indisputable. Read More ›