-
#HowToArgueWithARacist is published this week, so I’m doing a little advent calendar of scientific racism. Y’know, for fun. Let’s start with the great hero of the Enlightenment: Voltaire. (Romans: Les Lettres D’amabed, 1769) pic.twitter.com/PNC95GHZNf
Prikaži ovu nit -
Another
#HowToArgueWithARacist advent: Johann Gottfried Von Herder, an 18th C philosopher with remarkably modern thinking on human evolution. pic.twitter.com/JwgOzVLszX
Prikaži ovu nit -
Bristol friends: I'm doing an
#HowToArgueWithARacist talk on Thursday night@bristolmuseum and this one is FREE. So you have no excuse. FREEEEhttp://bit.ly/2GQSvat -
London friends,
@NosheenIqbal and I are in conversation about#HowToArgueWithARacist on Wednesday night at@gowerst_bookshttp://bit.ly/36VGX0h -
'
@AdamRutherford's new book busts persistent myths about race, sexual prowess and intelligence that beset society, giving us a way to fight back'#HowToArgueWithARacist is out on Thursday! https://www.newscientist.com/article/2232147-how-to-argue-with-a-racist-smashes-race-myths-that-plague-society/#ixzz6CufZyiP9 … -
Right. Just been on
@talkSPORTLive talking about race, met Motty, and said Alan Brazil when I meant Allan Welles. How’s your day going?#HowToArgueWithARacist -
For a fascinating and educational lunchtime listen tune in to
@talkRADIO@Matthew_Wright at 1:45 and then@tSHandJ at 2:15 to hear@AdamRutherford talk about his new book#HowToArgueWithARacist! pic.twitter.com/ziksHpfh1M
-
Listen here to
@AdamRutherford talking about#HowToArgueWithARacist on @bbcworldservice#Newsday (starts 48 mins in). The book is brilliant and out on Thursday!https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172wpkq415t477 … -
James Cleveland (aka Jesse) Owens achieved one of the great sporting achievements in 1936, the 100m, 200m, 4x100 & long jump. Even better he did it in front of Hitler in Berlin. Here is what his coach said:
#HowToArgueWithARacist pic.twitter.com/s4eCYy9n7m
Prikaži ovu nit -
Kant was such another, horribile dictu
#HowToArgueWithARacist -
Just picked up my copy today.
#howtoarguewitharacist -
Let’s do another
#HowToArgueWithARacist: Ludwik Hirszfeld, co-discoverer of ABO blood types, effectively the first genotype, and a major first step on the road to debunking the biological concept of race. From his autobiography, on persuading soldiers to give him blood: pic.twitter.com/boSk10JpB0
Prikaži ovu nit -
I'm more for shoot the racist. But is there a more intuitive way for explaining variance?
#mathishard#howtoarguewitharacist -
I'll be writing a full thread about Adam's book later, but one passage from
#HowToArgueWithARacist really struck me. I can't recommend this book enough for people who want to grapple more with modern genetic and evolutionary research in the face of racist misrepresentations. pic.twitter.com/wC71NG6eWl
-
The rest of the chapter deals with surprising discoveries coming from recent studies of the genetics of skin colour in African populations. I'll leave it to readers to discover the fascinating details through
@AdamRutherford's great storytelling!#HowToArgueWithARacist pic.twitter.com/wftd0CEZP2
Prikaži ovu nit -
Most of human evolutionary history occurred in Africa. There is more genetic diversity in Africa than the rest of the world.
#HowToArgueWithARacist pic.twitter.com/RV1DQwYiyj
Prikaži ovu nit -
Despite all of this efforts to create a racial taxonomy, as Dr Rutherford points out, "the continual failure to settle on the number of races is indicative of its folly".
#HowToArgueWithARacist pic.twitter.com/HTI9Ita8yB
Prikaži ovu nit -
The 19th C saw the rise of evolutionary ideas & Darwinism, with its implications of continuity between life forms. 19th & 20th C scientists attempted to create ever more complex racial taxonomies.
#HowToArgueWithARacistPrikaži ovu nit -
In the 17th C people began to formalize the taxonomic principles they were applying to humans. In discussing this history, Dr. Rutherford notes that we can describe the culture of the time as racist without necessarily condemning it.
#HowToArgueWithARacistPrikaži ovu nit
Čini se da učitavanje traje već neko vrijeme.
Twitter je možda preopterećen ili ima kratkotrajnih poteškoća u radu. Pokušajte ponovno ili potražite dodatne informacije u odjeljku Status Twittera.

collection, it's my homework for 