HIS-3464 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: William Jennings Bryan, Samuel Wilberforce, Ernst Haeckel
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Huxley: they had a debate in the 1860s in oxford. William jennings bryan: tried for teaching evolution in school. Why did it take so long: scientific challenges. Herbert spencer: what happens in nature, it helps us understand what is happening in our society. Races and social classes can be understood thanks to social darwinism. Preferred lamarckian: this is what spencer used, instead of darwin"s theory. The idea that your traits determine who you are. Darwin"s late publication: gets pressured to publish his work because of wallace. Alfred wallace: his essay summarizes his work. Less money, less status, saddest lives ever, patronage. Recapitulation theory: every human would have to go through the same changes that we all went through over time. Evolution happens on a long period of time but at birth, this would happen very quickly. Tree of life: chain of being : there is a tree that leads to man and the organisms branch out from the tree.
