About Stewart Andrew McDowall
Lived 1882 – 1935 (aged 52–53). Stewart Andrew McDowall was a biologist and zoologist.
Stewart Andrew McDowall (1882 – 13 January 1935) was an English biologist, eugenicist and philosopher.
McDowall was born in Bedford. He was educated at St Paul's School and University College London and graduated in natural science from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1904. He held the view that evolution was non-materialistic, progressive and supported the values of Christian cosmology.
He was an active eugenicist and was the author of Biology and Mankind (1931), which advocated sterilization of the feeble-minded.
McDowall died in Winchester on 13 January 1935.
Selected publications
Evolution and Spiritual Life (1915) Seven Doubts of a Biologist (1917) Evolution and the Doctrine of the Trinity (1918) Beauty and the Beast: An Essay in Evolutionary Aesthetic (1920) Evolution, Knowledge and Revelation (1924) Creative Personality and Evolution (1928) Biology and Mankind (1931) Is Sin Our Fault? (1932)
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English biologist and philosopher
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Stewart Andrew McDowall died on 13 January 1935 in Winchester.
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