Do you consider charles darwins theories to still be relevant?

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I’d put a huge asterisk by his name, because his theories were largely colored by the white supremacist and racist beliefs that were the filters through which he theorized.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@bijouxbroussard please enlighten me about that. But, the basic concepts, survival by the genetic fittest deems to still hold as proven.

bijouxbroussard · F

@samueltyler2 In his 1871 book The Descent of Man, Darwin depicted Africans as less evolved than white people. The mainstream scientific community in Europe and the United States accepted that characterization and used it to promote racial discrimination.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@bijouxbroussard wow, after all these years, I never knew that. I will have to find that citation. I always blamed that on other eugenics nutcases.