Human Evolution and Racism
https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/chimps-cant-tell-us-much-about-being-human What is the first thing that comes to mind when evolution or human evolution is brought up? "Survival of the fittest" is the first thing that comes to mind but how does this describe the story behind human evolution? Going beyond the creationism of human evolution is not often done in classroom settings. Holly Dunsworth wrote an article in 2018 that talked about teaching evolution and my favorite quote from the article was, " Evolution educators—even if sticking to E.coli, fruit flies, or sticklebacks—must confront the ways that evolutionary science has implicitly undergirded and explicitly promoted, or has naively inspired so many racist, sexist, and otherwise harmful beliefs and actions." There is a lot of stigma around racism and sexism and talking about it at school which is not right because school is a place where people go to learn. Talking about racism and how evolutionary sci