The concept of Human evolution has lots of cultural baggage…
The ‘march of progress’ is the most widespread depiction of human evolution in popular culture. It’s a bad design. Its implications are sexist and racist. It misleads the viewer into thinking that humans evolved from chimpanzees that are alive today.
Understanding evolution is how we can understand that humans are a part of nature. Since this popular understanding of human evolution is so bad, we figured this would be a good place to start writing.
Here are links to all of the sources we used in the research of this infographic.
- Werth, Alexander. “The Problems of Evolution as a ‘March of Progress.'” Sapiens. (August 2022). https://www.sapiens.org/biology/evolution-march-of-progress/
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- Haslanger, Sally, Joshua Glasgow, Chike Jeffers, Quayshawn Spencer. What is Race? Four Philosophical Views. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. https://philpapers.org/rec/GLAWIR
- Meikle, W.E., Scott, E.C. Why Are There Still Monkeys?. Evo Edu Outreach 3, 573–575 (2010).
- Tuttle, R. Howard. “human evolution.” Encyclopedia Britannica, February 16, 2023.
- https://www.britannica.com/science/human-evolution.
- Ayala, F. Jose. “evolution.” Encyclopedia Britannica, December 3, 2022. https://www.britannica.com/science/evolution-scientific-theory.
- Tuttle, R. Howard. “human evolution.” Encyclopedia Britannica, February 16, 2023. https://www.britannica.com/science/human-evolution.
- Tuttle, R. Howard. “human evolution.” Encyclopedia Britannica, February 16, 2023. https://www.britannica.com/science/human-evolution.
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