The biggie was biology, particularly the over-emphasis on genetics, and the complete rejection of inheritance of acquired characteristics - such as a frugal metabolism from mothers whose own mothers were starved while they were in the womb. (The field that studies this ridiculed "impossibility" today is called "epigenetics".)
Other errors were more learned than explicitly taught - if you omit key information, students will draw incorrect conclusions. Thus various areas apparantly had no history or culture until Europeans discovered them. and all the important science and technology was discovered in Europe, except whatever the ancient Babylonians and Egyptians had discovered. (I'm counting Greece as part of Europe here.)
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Date: 2020-07-17 05:13 pm (UTC)Other errors were more learned than explicitly taught - if you omit key information, students will draw incorrect conclusions. Thus various areas apparantly had no history or culture until Europeans discovered them. and all the important science and technology was discovered in Europe, except whatever the ancient Babylonians and Egyptians had discovered. (I'm counting Greece as part of Europe here.)