Adriana Novoa
is a cultural historian whose specialty is science in Latin America.
Adriana Novoa completed her MA and PhD in Latin American History at the University of California, San Diego. She is a cultural historian whose specialty is science in Latin America, and with Alex Levine she has written a book about Darwinism in Argentina: From Man to Monkey (The University of Chicago Press, 2010), and Darwinists! (Brill, 2012). Dr. Novoa’s articles have been published in Journal of Latin American Studies, Science in Context, The Latinoamericanist, and Revista Hispánica Moderna, among others. She is currently working on a book dealing with Darwin's evolutionism and masculinity in Argentina, From Virile to Sterile.
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January 5, 2016
Social Darwinism, A Case of Designed Ventriloquism
The study of social Darwinism in the 19th century shows us when our inner desires are structured in a complete, totalizing, and perfect way that provides continuity and stability to the nation, this is always done at the expense of science.