Eric Michael Johnson
is an evolutionary scholar and writer. He received his masters in Evolutionary Anthropology before pursuing a PhD in the History of Science.
Eric Michael Johnson is Managing Editor for This View of Life. He has a master's degree in evolutionary anthropology focusing on primate behavioral ecology and received his Ph.D. in the history of science from the University of British Columbia. His dissertation, The Struggle for Coexistence (reviewed on TVOL here) focused on the debate between 'Social' Darwinism and 'Socialist' Darwinism in England, France, Germany, and Russia in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In addition to publishing original research in such places as the Journal of Human Evolution, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, and Slavic and East European Review he has written on evolutionary topics for general audiences at Slate, Times Higher Education, Discover, Wired, Psychology Today and many others (see his website for more). He is a longtime advocate of science communication online and has spoken at academic as well as social media conferences on how important it is for scientists to reach out to the public by engaging readers with a compelling narrative. He can be found on Twitter at @ericmjohnson.
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July 5, 2015
Truth and Reconciliation for Social Darwinism
The term "Social Darwinism" is associated primarily with the moral justification of inequality, resulting in policies such as withholding welfare for the poor, colonialism, eugenics, and genocide. We would like to confront this legacy directly.
