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    separated by color. This quote is a clever way of saying that people of all races should be treated equally. Unfortunately people like Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer did not agree with this concept and so Social Darwinism was born. Social Darwinism is the theory that certain groups of people should follow the same rules of natural selection as plants and animals do. Darwin created Darwinism which says that species evolved by natural selection and those that could not adapt did not evolve…

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    environmental conditions in order to survive. Plain Zebras are an example of evolution because shows different types of evidence. For the Theory of Evolution to be proven there needs to be evidence because all theories need to have supported evidence. Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, in the tiny merchant town of Shrewsbury, England and died on April 19, 1882. His studies of specimens around the globe led him to formulate his theory of evolution and his views on the process of…

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    survival of the fittest. Eugenics and social Darwinism were both similar since eugenics originated from social Darwinism of the late nineteenth century. "Eugenics" was thought of in 1883 by the English researcher Francis Galton, who was the cousin of Charles Darwin. Galton characterized the expression "eugenics” as the theory of hereditary improvement of the human race by selective breeding. The first state to present the sterilization bill was Michigan, in 1897, however the proposed law failed…

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    Charles Darwin, in On the Origin of Species, explains his theory of natural selection and its power to shape the evolution of species with help from the example of how species are shaped through domestication, or rather, artificial selection. With the example of domestication, however, there is a potential obstacle as to the validity his theory. Fleeming Jenkin presents this obstacle by saying Darwin’s theory “rests on the assumption that natural selection can do slowly what man’s selection does…

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    The creation of the universe, a vast and controversial subject of origins, is constantly debated, twisted, and altered to reach a point of what some would say, an understanding. Everyone has thought about questions of origin, and this debate is no stranger to conversation between people. The question of origins can arise in any area of study. In the study of chemistry one would wonder, where these elements originated. In more political science studies, specifically government, one would wonder…

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    Though this concept of an evolutionary descent has been around since the ancient Greeks, Charles Darwin introduced a plausible mechanism for evolution known as natural selection. Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection was sparked upon his visit to the Galapagos Islands. Darwin observed unique creatures that were similar from island to island but were perfectly adapted to their environments. This observation lead him to consider the…

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    vindicated or kindled by Darwin (and others) gave hope. Although the rough idea of improvement through competition might initially seem at odds with the egalitarian ideals of socialism, detailed examinations of Darwin sometimes found a sense of…

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    against individuals, where the fittest species collectively sends the other species to extinction. In ‘The Origin of Species’, Charles Darwin uses the term ‘Natural Selection’ to describe the key evolutionary process. The phrase ‘Survival of the Fittest’, although typically attributed to Darwin, was introduced by Herbert Spencer and then adopted by Darwin in a later book. Darwin wrote: “This preservation, during the battle for life, of varieties which possess any advantage in structure,…

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    The idea of an offspring showing differences from their parents deals with the concept of descent with modification through natural selection. The concept of evolution through natural selection was first conceived by Charles Darwin and is used to explain how and why populations of species change over time (Laboratory Exercise 4 2015). Darwin’s theory was based on three conditions that are necessary and sufficient for natural selection. There must be variation in a trait in a population, the…

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    Charles Darwin is the father of evolution by natural selection and was seen as a figurehead for logical and pure reasoning. Even today the image of Darwin is one of the most circulated and recognizable images. In the nineteenth-century Darwin had a cultish following from the public, but that did not mean that everyone accepted his work as fact. Those who did accept his work were quick to expand the ideas presented by Darwin and use them to justify their own cause. One of these was the use of…

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