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  2. Social Darwinism - Wikipedia

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    Social evolution theories in Germany gained large popularity in the 1860s and had a strong antiestablishment connotation first. Social Darwinism allowed people to counter the connection of Thron und Altar, the intertwined establishment of clergy and nobility, and provided as well the idea of progressive change and evolution of society as a whole.

  3. Social effects of evolutionary theory - Wikipedia

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    The theory of evolution by natural selection has also been adopted as a foundation for various ethical and social systems, such as social Darwinism, an idea that preceded the publication of The Origin of Species, popular in the 19th century, which holds that "the survival of the fittest" (a phrase coined in 1851 by Herbert Spencer, [1] 8 years before Darwin published his theory of evolution ...

  4. Category:Social Darwinism - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Social Darwinism" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  5. Sociobiology - Wikipedia

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    This example raises the question of how altruistic genes can be passed on if this soldier dies without having any children. [15] Within sociobiology, a social behavior is first explained as a sociobiological hypothesis by finding an evolutionarily stable strategy that matches the observed behavior. Stability of a strategy can be difficult to ...

  6. Darwinian puzzle - Wikipedia

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    The coloration of the poison dart frog is readily visible to predators. A Darwinian puzzle is a trait that appears to reduce the fitness of individuals that possess it. Such traits attract the attention of evolutionary biologists.

  7. Darwinism - Wikipedia

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    Charles Darwin in 1868. Darwinism is a term used to describe a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others. The theory states that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.

  8. Natural selection - Wikipedia

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    [123] Herbert Spencer and the eugenics advocate Francis Galton's interpretation of natural selection as necessarily progressive, leading to supposed advances in intelligence and civilisation, became a justification for colonialism, eugenics, and social Darwinism. For example, in 1940, Konrad Lorenz, in writings that he subsequently disowned ...

  9. Social degeneration - Wikipedia

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    Social degeneration was a widely influential concept ... writings of the eugenicists and social Darwinists (for example, ... world of eugenics and social Darwinism.