Social_Darwinism

Social Darwinism Social Darwinism, as the name clearly implies, is the application of Darwinian Theory to human society. Darwinism itself is a concept of evolution developed in the mid-19th century by Charles Robert Darwin. Darwin\'s observations led him to question the then current belief in special creation of each species. Darwin observed that although all organisms tend to reproduce in an increasing ratio, the numbers of a given species remain more or less constant. From this he deduced that there is a continuing struggle for existence, for survival. He pointed out the existence of variation differences among members of the same species. From this, he suggested that the variations that prove helpful to a plant or an animal in its struggle for existence better enable it to survive and reproduce. These favorable variations are thus transmitted to the offspring of the survivors and spread to the entire species over successive generations. This process he called the principle of natural selection. As originally formulated, Darwinism did not distinguish between acquired characteristics, which are not transmissible by heredity, and genetic variations, which are inheritable. Soon after the publishing of Darwin’s most famous work, “origin of species,” a man named Herbert Spencer proposed the idea darwinism, social, unconscious, ken, free, ken’s, father, violence, tattoo, claudia, species, one, being, action, question, named, man, ends, whether, way, variations, story, over, life, killed, kill, id, human, honolulu, himself, existence, ego, dad, conscious, concept