'Every man & woman is hermaphrodite' (Charles Darwin, c.1838)
My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871)' in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has now been viewed over 25K times! Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🏳️🌈 🐒
I'm reading Charles Darwin's barnacle study with a queer eye with a mind towards developing my 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet' . . . but, doing a bit of googling around it, I find that someone on Reddit has already beat me to the core thesis . . . 🤨
My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871)' in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has now been viewed over 20K times! Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🏳️🌈 🐒
🎂 A delightful birthday treat today, visiting Down House - former home of Charles Darwin - for the first time. This was long overdue!
Amid all the staid Victoriana, I couldn't help but think of Darwin writing about gynandromorphs, 'latent sex,' 'vice,' and 'extreme sensuality' here . . .
We may have missed some women & non-English speakers; their invisibility is a long-standing problem. If so, we would appreciate feedback on such omissions
UW-Madison's history department just shared the sad news that historian Ronald Numbers died peacefully at home a few days ago.
Numbers retired before I came to Madison, but his influence on the department and field was immense, and his work is a forceful and persuasive argument for taking the power and complexity of religion seriously in the history of science.
Darwinism Comes to America, in particular, is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how evolution got to the very strange place it has in American culture.