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Profs & Pints: Race, Evolution, Art and Medicine
The Bier Baron Tavern
Washington, DC
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Profs & Pints: Race, Evolution, Art and Medicine
Profs and Pints presents: Race, Evolution, Art and Medicine, with Rui Diogo, associate professor of anatomy at Howard University's College of Medicine and resource faculty member at George Washington University's Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology.

Science often is depicted as the antidote to wrongheaded ideas, but truth has often been far more complicated. Join Rui Diogo, an award-winning scholar of hominid paleobiology, for a talk on how scholarship on primates and evolution has been used throughout history to buttress prejudice and justify harm to our fellow homo sapiens.

We'll start with the ancient Greek physician Aelius Galenus, who used monkeys to infer human anatomy, in line with the human-animal continuity implied by the Greek notion of scala naturae. From there, we'll discuss the uneasy relationship between Christianity and non-human primates, and how the 1699 discovery of anatomical similarities between humans and chimpanzees caused discomfort that led to attempts to distinguish not only between humans and other primates, but Europeans and others viewed as less civilized.

We'll hear how studies of craniology and anatomical racial studies led to even more extreme ideas of Europeans being mentally and morphologically ideal. The biased and often incorrect results of such studies were combined with Darwin's ideas to give rise to eugenics and, eventually, Nazism.

In the wake of World War II and the discovery of Nazi horrors scientists have focused on emphasizing the unity and continuity between all human groups and between humans and other primates. Bad ideas are tough to kill off, however, and racist ideologies based on false beliefs are re-emerging in political discourse

Dr. Diogo will show how biological data contradicts belief in the existence of separate human races and notions of superiority or inferiority based on skin color. He'll also discuss the ways in which the bad ideas of the past remain alive today. (Advance tickets: $12. Doors: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please allow yourself time to place any orders and get seated and settled in.)

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The Bier Baron Tavern (Afficher)
1523 22nd St NW
Washington, DC 20037
United States
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Éducation > Classes
Autres > Health & Wellness
Autres > Politique
Autres > Technologie

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Non-fumeur : Oui
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Sur BPT depuis : 27 Sept 2017
 
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