00:01
Okay, so the directed human evolution by selective breeding would be described as what? eugenics, social darwinism, scientific racism, environmental determinism, or natural selection.
00:15
Okay, first, it's not going to be natural selection, because there's selective breeding, that would be artificial.
00:22
It's also not social darwinism, which is, at its basic, the idea that human beings are subject to natural selection, and often that it can be applied to something like sociology for a survival of a fittest thing.
00:36
For the others, environmental determinism is the hypothesis that the physical environment shapes human development.
00:49
So environmental determinism is that the environment shapes society, which initially doesn't sound like such a bad thing, but it has often been.
01:04
Being used as a form of scientific racism.
01:07
For example, during colonial periods, where, especially when africa was being colonised, the scientists at the time could say, well, tropical climates predisposed society to uncivil behaviour, and use that as an excuse for colonial behaviour.
01:25
So it's often been used as a form of scientific racism...