Jena Declaration
The concept of race is the result of racism, not its prerequisite.
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To mark the 112th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society in Jena, the Institute for Zoology and Evolutionary Research of Friedrich Schiller University is organising an evening event on the subject of ‘Jena, Haeckel and the question of human races, or racism creates races’.
The joint declaration below provides information on this topic and was approved by the German Zoological Society and the President of Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, who support the authors in their effort to act against scientific legitimations of racism.
apl. Prof. Dr. Uwe Hoßfeld
Institut für Zoologie und Evolutionsforschung/AG Biologiedidaktik der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Am Steiger 3
07743 Jena