HIST111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Resistance 2, Eugenics, Social Darwinism
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**darwinism was not conceived with knowledge of genes or genetic variation. Descent of man 1871 argues human t into mold of species, or organism in darwinism humans descended in monkeys selection by sex: met with much opposition, ie. public lectures. Bishop wiberforce vs. huxley darwin"s bulldog : maintain many heated debates at universities. 19th century ideas of race was a product of pseudoscience paleontology: measure skull size as proportional to intelligence relating to skin colour different also related to brain size - craniometry. 1853 gobineau essay on races applies paleontology, claiming northern european whites as superior warns against dangers of miscegenation (race-mixing) and inevitability of miscegenation. Nazis borrow heavily from gobineau does not believe in anti-semitism; believed jews part of superior white race. 1876 lombroso measures face and head of criminals to determine physical traits of criminals everyone bought into ideas of pseudoscience. Eugenics - creating a better race via encouraging procreation.