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SUMMARY:Darwin Deleted
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DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>TUESDAY&nbsp\;&middot\;&nbsp\;29 JULY &middot\; 11 AM ET / 8.30 PM IST</strong></p>\n<p><strong>REGISTER HERE:&nbsp\;https://forms.gle/u9eA2JGXKKFm8SXw8</strong></p>\n<p>By the end of the nineteenth century\, the language of Darwinism had permeated culture and empire in Europe. Rather than being a descriptive enterprise&mdash\;a model for understanding how species evolve and go extinct&mdash\;Darwinism became for many a prescription to accelerate racial struggle: a warrant for one <em>nation</em> to dominate another less <em>fit</em> specimen of the human race.</p>\n<p>Survival\, under this lens\, became a zero-sum game: someone had to die and make space for the master race. In the words of the eugenicist Francis Galton\, &lsquo\;That which nature does blindly\, slowly and ruthlessly\, man may do providently\, quickly and kindly . . . Humanity shall be represented by the fittest races.&rsquo\;</p>\n<p><strong>But what if Darwin had never published On the Origin of Species?</strong></p>\n<p>How responsible was he\, and his prose\, for the misinterpretations of evolution that took hold of the European imagination?&nbsp\; What would the history of science&mdash\;and society&mdash\;look like if Darwin had never returned from the <em>Beagle</em> voyage? Would science and religion have remained more aligned? Would evolution have avoided its pernicious uses and abuses?</p>\n<p>The historian of science <strong>Peter Bowler</strong> will discuss these counterfactuals and more.</p>
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