Tag: biology
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Who Is a Jew? – Max Beerbohm, Detlev Bronk, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Robert Sussman, and Jerry Hirsch
Max Beerbohm Beerbohm was a writer and artist who was famous as a caricaturist for Britain’s Vanity Fair magazine. Beerbohm was suspected of being a Jew by some of his peers and by the poet Ezra Pound, but his Jewishness is not publicly admitted. Max Beerbohm’s father, Julius, is said to have been “Lithuanian-born”, a…
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Louis Agassiz – a “Racist”?
(This article was originally written in May, 2021.) I was watching a video as part of schoolwork, and the person in the video was using a map to show the distribution of accidents in some section of the state of Massachusetts. It was not an entertaining or interesting video, not by any means, my only…
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Self-Studying on the Internet
(This article was originally written in October 2019.) You may have noticed that I haven’t posted much to this blog for a while. You might be curious why. Well, this is partly because no ideas for posts have come to mind that I haven’t already discussed in previous articles. I have been spending much time…
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Race – A Modern Myth?
Clyde Kluckhohn The American anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn’s most popular and celebrated work, Mirror for Man (1949), contains numerous interesting assertions and suggestions concerning race. I thought it would be proper to discuss here, in a somewhat discriminating way some of the more astonishing selections of Kluckhohn’s scholarship. My concern here will be for a certain…