New from SAPIENS Celebrated 19th-century biologist Ernst Haeckel pushed race science as his little known protégé Nikolai Miklucho-Maclay defended Indigenous rights. A biological anthropologist reflects on the impacts of their ruptured relationship.
and paved the way for eugenics, the idea that humans could be improved by selecting specific hereditary traits, most often traits of White Northern Europeans. These ideas were championed by scientists such as Ernst Haeckel, who mentored Miklucho-Maclay. Their uneven relationship shows one arena where the struggle over race science was fought.
Today Haeckel remains famous yet reviled. He made important contributions in the fields of evolutionary biology and ecology, and he elucidated connections between development—changes over an individual lifespan—and evolution—changes across generations.Though Haeckel trained Miklucho-Maclay in ecology and biological classification, their paths diverged, as
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