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Podcast: New Books in German Studies
Episode: Robert J. Richards, âWas Hitler a Darwinian?: Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theoryâ (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Description: In his new collection of wonderfully engaging and provocative set of essays on Darwin and Darwinians, Robert J. Richards explores the history of biology and so much more. The eight essays collected in Was Hitler a Darwinian?: Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2013), include reflections on Darwinâs theories of natural selection and divergence, Ernst Haeckelâs life and work, the evolutionary ideas of Herbert Spencer, the linguistic theories of August Schleicher, and the historical tendency to relate Hitlerâs Nazism to Darwinian evolutionary theory. Individually, the essays are models of close and careful re...