World News Racist and Sexist Depictions of Human Evolution Still Permeate Science Education and Popular Culture Today LatestLY

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. Also Read | Hindu Temple Vandalised With Anti-India Graffiti in Canada’s Windsor, Police Launch Probe and Release CCTV Video. 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…