Questions for Discussion Questions to think about and answer before reading the book: What is race? What is ethnicity? What is nationality? What race are you? What ethnicity are you? What nationality are you? What do your answers to these questions mean to you personally? What role does race play in your life? Why [...]
Archive of posts tagged evolution
Carroll, Sean B. — Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species
“[Carroll is] the rare scientist with an easygoing writing style.” - USA Today “[Carroll is] the new, user-friendly public face of evolutionary science.”- U.S. News & World Report Just two centuries ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of the history of our planet and the life on it, including our own [...]
Desmond, Adrian and Moore, James — Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution
“Desmond and Moore’s fascinating new look at Darwin forces us to revise and expand the way we look at this revolutionary figure, and to see him wrestling with moral as well as scientific questions. And it is a reminder of just how much the issue of slavery loomed over everything in the nineteenth century, including [...]
