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

  • Written by Rui Diogo, Associate Professor of Anatomy, Howard University
imageHuman evolution is typically depicted with a progressive whitening of the skin, despite a lack of evidence to support it.Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov/Wikimedia Commons

Systemic racism and sexism have permeated civilization since the rise of agriculture, when people started living in one place for a long time. Early Western scientists, such as...

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