![]() ![]() They did all this science to try to prove that, which, by modern standards is not scientific, as we understand it at all. And so if they came into our country and started to partner with "native" people, with local people, that they would have these hybrid children that would be like deformed, essentially degenerated and deformed. really felt like immigration would cause a biological catastrophe, because they thought that people from Africa or Polynesia or elsewhere in the world were biologically distinct. ![]() ![]() On how Linnaeus' ideas opened the door for junk "race science" within the scientific community We see hints of all of that in the way we make policy around immigration and newcomers in places around the world. When a wild creature crosses from a different place into a new territory, we think of it as an invasive we call it an alien. ![]() We see hints of all of that in the way we make policy around immigration and newcomers in places around the world.īut those ideas were incredibly influential because we see them today in our ideas about race and about where people belong and where wild species belong. ![]()
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