7 sentences with “biologically”

Women were not, supposedly, biologically capable of political participation or intellectual achievement.

Women were not, according to the new theories, just inferior versions of men, they were biologically engineered to be the polar opposite: dumb, over-emotional and, above all, unable to think rationally.

Homo sapiens emerged in a form biologically identical to today's humanity around 300,000 years ago (fossil evidence frequently revises that number - the oldest known specimen was discovered in Morocco in 2017).

Gobineau's work was hugely influential over time. It would inspire the Social Darwinist movement that emerged later in the 19th century, which claimed that the lower classes were biologically inferior to the upper classes.

Unfortunately, although a significant minority of male thinkers came to agree, most remained adamant that women were biologically and spiritually inferior, destined for their traditional roles and ill-served by advanced education.

The idea that the human species was divided into biologically distinct races was not entirely invented in the 19th century, but it became the predominant view and acquired all the characteristics of a "science" in the course of the 19th century.

Indeed, the whole idea of human "race" derives largely from the slave trade; biologically, "race" is nothing more than a handful of unimportant cosmetic differences between people, but thanks to the history of enslavement of Africans, Europeans of the early modern period led the charge in describing "race" as some sort of fundamental human category, with some races supposedly enjoying "natural" superiority. That assumption would obviously cast a perverse shadow on the present.