A historian of science and professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. will be giving the lecture, “Darwin and Marx and Wagner” Thursday at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.
Garland E. Allen’s lecture will discuss the similarities between Charles Darwin, Karl Marx and Richard Wagner. Besides all three dying within a year of each other (1882-1883), all three were philosophical materialists, evolutionists and dialectical thinkers, according to Allen.
“All three reflect and contributed to the cultural events of their time,” Allen said.
Allen’s research is in the history and philosophy of biology with an emphasis on genetics, embryology, evolution and their relationships, according to the History of Science Dream Course Speakers Web site.
Allen has published widely in the scientific, economic and social history of “eugenics” which was defined in the early part of the century as “the science of human improvement through better breeding,” according to the Web site.
The lecture is open to the public and will begin at 6 p.m. Thursday in the main auditorium at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.
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