Back الآثار الاجتماعية للنظرية التطورية Arabic Aspectes socials de la teoria de l'evolució Catalan Social effects of evolutionary theory English Efectos sociales de la teoría de la evolución Spanish پیامدهای اجتماعی اندیشه فرگشتی Persian Evoluutioteorian yhteiskunnalliset vaikutukset Finnish Efek sosial teori evolusi ID 진화이론의 사회적 영향 Korean Efeito social da teoria evolutiva Portuguese 演化論的社會影響 Chinese

Social responses to the idea of evolution

As "Darwinism" became widely accepted in the 1870s, amusing cariacatures of Charles Darwin with an ape or monkey body symbolised evolution.[1]

Evolution was an idea debated before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. In very broad terms, this idea says that species change over time. Even today, some people still talk about the concept of evolution and what it means to them, to their philosophy and their religion. Sometimes these people also talk about the social implications of evolution. This debate is mostly about the meaning of evolution to human life, or about human nature,[2] not about how evolution works.

  1. ↑ Browne, Janet (2003). Charles Darwin: The Power of Place. London: Pimlico. pp. 376–379. ISBN 0-7126-6837-3.
  2. ↑ Stevenson, Leslie and Haberman, David L. 2009. Ten theories of human nature. 5th ed, Oxford University Press. Chapter 10: Darwinian theories of human nature. ISBN 978-0-19-536825-3

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