Racist and sexist depictions of human evolution still permeate science education and popular culture today Education

Washington, Apr 6 (The Conversation) Systemic racism and sexism have permeated civilisation since the rise of agriculture, when people started living in one place for a long time. Early Western scientists, such as Aristotle in ancient Greece, were indoctrinated with the ethnocentric and misogynistic narratives that permeated their society. More than 2,000 years after Aristotle’s writings, English naturalist Charles Darwin also extrapolated the sexist and racist narratives he heard and read in his youth to the natural world. Darwin presented his biased views as scientific facts, such as in his 1871 book “The Descent of Man,” where he described his…