1000 years before Darwin, an African Muslim scholar wrote about natural selection

[Leasy]

All this shyt been known just like Africans and the Mesopotamia civilizations knew the world was round and we wasn't the center of the universe. Everything these Europeans take credit for was taught thousands of years before their development of language in the Asian mountains.

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

The mongols destroying the library of Baghdad took back inventions some good 100 years

Also the library in Alexandria
Julius Cesar the whole thing down

 

[Leasy]

Also the library in Alexandria
Julius Cesar the whole thing down

And the libraries n codexs of the Aztecs/Mayans as well were burnt

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

And the libraries n codexs of the Aztecs/Mayans as well were burnt

Was it done on purpose or part of the siege ?

Maaan all that knowledge in Baghdad from 8 century to 12th century gone

 

[Leasy]

Was it done on purpose or part of the siege ?

Maaan all that knowledge in Baghdad from 8 century to 12th century gone

Both breh shyt is disgusting what these evil cacs have done to human history. You heard about the Pries Map supposedly that came from lost knowledge as well. That map shown Antartica without ice etc..

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

The Mongols have single destroyed lives and set intelligent life back at least a century

 

[Still Benefited]

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time."-ecclesiastes 1:9

Life as we know it is simply our season

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

Both breh shyt is disgusting what these evil cacs have done to human history. You heard about the Pries Map supposedly that came from lost knowledge as well. That map shown Antartica without ice etc..

Goat thiefs…300 years before Columbus
Turkish map

 

[Duke Wy Lin]

Sadly it's the conquerors who write history

 

[Swagnificent]

Professors are starting to orient Charles Darwin within a rich history of people from all cultures who have grappled with the mechanisms of life.

Recently, New York University professor James Higham tweeted about how he updated the lectures of his class on primate behavioral ecology, geared to upper-level undergraduates. They now "properly acknowledge Islamic scholarship in this area—especially that of Al-Jahiz (781-869 CE)," Higham wrote. "It seems clear that something like evolution by natural selection was proposed a thousand years before Darwin/Wallace." (The naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace independently proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection around the same time as Darwin.)

“I was struck by the extent to which Al-Jahiz appears to have had not just evolutionary ideas, but many ideas that could be said to be related specifically to the process of evolution by natural selection,” Higham said in an email. “This seems to have included ideas such as competition over finite resources, adaptation in response to the environment, and speciation over time as an outcome.”


His tweet referenced a graph of eight pre-Darwin Muslim scholars who wrote about evolutionary ideas, from "An untold story in biology: the historical continuity of evolutionary ideas of Muslim scholars from the 8th century to Darwin’s time," a 2017 paper by senior author Rui Diogo, an assistant professor at Howard University. Higham plans to include Al-Jahiz and other pre-Darwin scholars in his large intro class on human origins as well. Other academics replied to Higham's tweet, saying they were taking similar action. Like Andy Higginson, an ecologist and Senior Lecturer at University of Exeter who responded, "I did the same for a lecture last week!"
There is no evidence that Darwin knew of Islamic scholars from the 9th or 10th centuries, said Salman Hameed, the director of the Centre for the Study of Science in Muslim Societies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts—but the purpose of including mention of past scholars isn't to say that Darwin copied them, or drew from them, or to in any way diminish his legacy.

“I think it's good for students to know that other societies have thought about these things," Hameed said. "I think it enriches our story of science. The story of science in some sense should be a story of humans, not a story of a couple of individuals coming up with these great things—but a human endeavor

A Thousand Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection - VICE

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Al-Jahiz wasn't African. He was a black Arab from a tribe in Saudi Arabia.

Yall gotta stop thinking the only black people in the Ancient world were African.

 

[Duke Wy Lin]

Al-Jahiz wasn't African. He was a black Arab from a tribe in Saudi Arabia.

Yall gotta stop thinking the only black people in the Ancient world were African.

He was of African descent.

 

[Swagnificent]

He also wrote a book called "the glory of the black race"

Book of the Glory of the Black Race

Book of the Glory of the Black Race is a book written b…

www.goodreads.com

I made a thread on him years ago.

Did you know that a 9th century Arab wrote a book entitled "The Superiority of Blacks over Whites"?

How many people know this man? Al-Jahiz - Wikipedia Al-Jahiz (born 776, in Basra – December 868/January 869) was an Arab prose writer and author of works of literature, Mu'tazili theology, and politico-religious polemics. Not much is known about al-Jāḥiẓ's early life, but his family was...

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Yall late.

 

[Swagnificent]

He was of African descent.

No. He was from a tribe native to Saudi Arabia related to the tribe the Prophet Muhammad descended from.

Al-Jahiz - Wikipedia

It's say it right there on his wiki page.

Contrary to what most people assume, the original inhabitants of the Arabian peninsula were phenotypically similar to the current inhabitants of East Africa. So while he did look black and would definitely be categorized as black by today's standards. He was technically not African. He was a Arab from Saudi Arabia.

By the way there are still plenty of black Arabs to this day in the middle east. Being black and Arab are not mutually exclusive notions.

 

[Mindfield333]

He also wrote a book called "the glory of the black race"

Book of the Glory of the Black Race

Book of the Glory of the Black Race is a book written b…

www.goodreads.com

I was looking for this recently. Couldn’t think of buddy’s name

 

[Zime]

The Mongols have single destroyed lives and set intelligent life back at least a century

Good thing Egypt stopped them from trying to enter Africa