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The Reckless Creation of Whiteness
In The Unseen Truth, Sarah Lewis examines how an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries ...
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
Blumenbach later redefined Bildungstrieb within the framework of Newtonian mechanics. Inspired by Samuel Clarke’s concept of a secondary cause, Blumenbach argued that Bildungstrieb was akin to a ...