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Darwinism (and Social Darwinism)
2009From the 1830s, doctrines of creationism were increasingly challenged, initially by geological discoveries and then by evolutionary theories, which were first applied to animal and plant species, and later extended to humanity. Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, introduced in 1859 in The Origin of Species, led to the emergence of the term ...
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Darwin as a social evolutionist
Journal of the History of Biology, 1977The question of Darwin's views on social evolution has long been a controversial one. At one extreme, writers like the anthropologist Marvin Harris have represented Darwin as a Spencerian in his general outlook, accusing him of "biological Spencerism" or racial determinism. To these writers Darwin was a powerful exponent, though not the originator, of "
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Darwin, social Darwinism and eugenics
2007How does Darwin's Darwinism relate to social Darwinism and eugenics? Like many foes of Darwinism, past and present, the American populist and creationist William Jennings Bryan thought a straight line ran from Darwin's theory ('a dogma of darkness and death') to beliefs that it is right for the strong to crowd out the weak, and that the only hope for ...
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