Examples of Darwin in the following topics:
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- Darwin imagined that the island species might be modified from one of the original mainland species.
- Darwin called this mechanism natural selection.
- Natural selection, Darwin argued, was an inevitable outcome of three principles that operated in nature.
- The following year, Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published.
- Darwin observed that beak shape varies among finch species.
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- Reform Darwinism recognized that the fittest could be those who cooperated with each other.
- While Darwin himself chiefly used the term "Reform Darwinism" in its narrow sense for his own special purpose, he warned his followers against committing the error (which he seems once to have committed himself) of overrating its narrow meaning.
- Social Darwinism has often been linked to nationalism and imperialism.
- Darwinist Collectivism or Reform Darwinism, rather than the individualist form of Darwinism, are more accurate terms for these ideologies.
- Describe the political movements inspired, directly or indirectly, by Darwin's work
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- American Social Darwinism held that the social classes had no obligation towards those unequipped or under-equipped to compete for survival.
- Many such views stress competition between individuals in laissez-faire capitalism, while others frequently linked evolution, Charles Darwin and social Darwinism with racialism, nationalism, imperialism and eugenics, contending that social Darwinism became one of the pillars of fascism and Nazi ideology, and that the consequences of the application of policies of "survival of the fittest" by Nazi Germany eventually created a very strong backlash against the theory.
- A different form of social Darwinism was part of the ideological foundations of Nazism and other fascist movements.
- Names such as "Darwinian collectivism" or "Reform Darwinism" have been suggested to describe these views, in order to differentiate them from the individualist type of social Darwinism.
- Burgess, and others developed theories of social evolution as a result of their exposure to the works of Darwin and Spencer.
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- The differences in shape and size of beaks in Darwin's finches illustrate ongoing evolutionary change.
- From 1831 to 1836, Darwin traveled around the world, observing animals on different continents and islands.
- On the Galapagos Islands, Darwin observed several species of finches with unique beak shapes.
- Darwin called this mechanism of change natural selection.
- Darwin observed that beak shape varies among finch species.
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- Social Darwinism explains individuals' success by attributing it to their greater fitness.
- Spencer is perhaps best known for coining the term "survival of the fittest," later commonly termed "social Darwinism."
- But, popular belief to the contrary, Spencer did not merely appropriate and generalize Darwin's work on natural selection; Spencer only grudgingly incorporated Darwin's theory of natural selection into his preexisting synthetic philosophical system.
- Herbert Spencer built on Darwin's framework of evolution, extrapolating it to the spheres of ethics and society.
- This is why Spencer's theories are often called "social Darwinism."
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- Well before Darwin began to explore the concept of evolution, the idea that species change over time had already been suggested and debated.
- During the nineteenth century, Hutton's views were popularized by the geologist Charles Lyell, who was a friend of Charles Darwin.
- Lyell's ideas, in turn, influenced Darwin's concept of evolution.
- The greater age of the earth proposed by Lyell supported the gradual evolution that Darwin proposed, and the slow process of geological change provided an analogy for the gradual change in species.
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- Charles Darwin was central in the development of comparative psychology; in fact, the field is often separated into pre- and post-Darwin phases because his contributions were so influential.
- Darwin's theory led to several hypotheses, one being that the factors that set humans apart—such as higher mental, moral, and spiritual faculties—could be accounted for by evolutionary principles.
- George John Romanes was also highly influential in the development of comparative psychology; following Darwin's work, he set out to prove that animals had a “rudimentary human mind.”
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- In summary, the "tree of life" model proposed by Darwin must be modified to include HGT.
- A consequence of the new thinking about phylogenetic models is the idea that Darwin's original conception of the phylogenetic tree is too simple, but made sense based on what was known at that time.
- Visually, this concept is better represented by (b) the multi-trunked Ficus than by the single trunk of the oak, similar to the tree drawn by Darwin.
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- Evolutionary psychology stems from Charles Darwin's theories of evolution, adaptation, and natural selection.
- Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection has been highly influential in the field of evolutionary psychology.
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- Charles Darwin first attempted to find the existence of imitation in animals when trying to prove his theory that the human mind had evolved from that of lower beings.
- Darwin was also the first to suggest what became known as 'social learning' in explaining the transmission of an adaptive behavior pattern throughout a population of honey bees.