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is published this week, so I’m doing a little advent calendar of scientific racism. Y’know, for fun. Let’s start with the great hero of the Enlightenment: Voltaire. (Romans: Les Lettres D’amabed, 1769)
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Let’s do another : Ludwik Hirszfeld, co-discoverer of ABO blood types, effectively the first genotype, and a major first step on the road to debunking the biological concept of race. From his autobiography, on persuading soldiers to give him blood:
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James Cleveland (aka Jesse) Owens achieved one of the great sporting achievements in 1936, the 100m, 200m, 4x100 & long jump. Even better he did it in front of Hitler in Berlin. Here is what his coach said:
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Another advent: Johann Gottfried Von Herder, an 18th C philosopher with remarkably modern thinking on human evolution.
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But before you get too excited about his progressive values...
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Barry Ryan 2. velj
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Just picked up my copy today. 👍
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👊🏽
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Dear God!
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Just wait before Steven Pinker sees this, he is going to be really mad about it :)
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Yikes. For a while I thought he meant like a marmot or other small primate. Then I saw this was pre-Darwin and it sank in
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