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Once We All Had Gills

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Author : Rudolf A. Raff
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-16

Once We All Had Gills written by Rudolf A. Raff and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

In this book, Rudolf A. Raff reaches out to the scientifically queasy, using his life story and his growth as a scientist to illustrate why science matters, especially at a time when many Americans are both suspicious of science and hostile to scientific ways of thinking. Noting that science has too often been the object of controversy in school curriculums and debates on public policy issues ranging from energy and conservation to stem-cell research and climate change, Raff argues that when the public is confused or ill-informed, these issues tend to be decided on religious, economic, and political grounds that disregard the realities of the natural world. Speaking up for science and scientific literacy, Raff tells how and why he became an evolutionary biologist and describes some of the vibrant and living science of evolution. Once We All Had Gills is also the story of evolution writ large: its history, how it is studied, what it means, and why it has become a useful target in a cultural war against rational thought and the idea of a secular, religiously tolerant nation.

Darwin S Racism

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Author : Leon Zitzer
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2016-06-10

Darwin S Racism written by Leon Zitzer and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-10 with History categories.

Throughout the 19th century in the British Empire, parallel developments in science and the law were squeezing Aborigines everywhere into nonexistence. Charles Darwin took part in this. Again and again, he expressed his approval of the extermination of the native lower races. The more interesting part of the story is that there were plenty of voices, albeit a minority and mostly forgotten now, who objected on humanitarian grounds (and sometimes scientific grounds as well). Europeans, they said, were becoming polished savages and dehumanizing the Other. Darwin was very aware of this criticism and cared not one whit. As he said in a letter to Charles Lyell, I care not much whether we are looked at as mere savages in a remotely distant future. But he well knew it was not a remote future. He had read several writers who accused Europeans of being the real savages. For a brief moment in his youth in his Diary, he himself dabbled in such criticism, even though he already believed in the inferiority of indigenous peoples. That belief grew firmer as he matured. Darwin did not dispute humanitarians so much as he ignored them. Its a sad story. But oh those humanitarians, how they inspire.

Journal Of The Scottish Meteorological Society

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880

Journal Of The Scottish Meteorological Society written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with Meteorology categories.

Catholic World

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893

Catholic World written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with categories.

The Pickwick Papers Pictures From Italy American Notes Bleak House The Uncommercial Traveller A Child S History Of England Barnaby Rudge Miscellaneous The Mystery Of Edwin Drood

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Author : Charles Dickens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879

The Pickwick Papers Pictures From Italy American Notes Bleak House The Uncommercial Traveller A Child S History Of England Barnaby Rudge Miscellaneous The Mystery Of Edwin Drood written by Charles Dickens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with categories.