Note: Darwin himself relied on Lamarck for a mechanism underlying natural selection, since he wasn't aware of Mendel's work.
On Apr 5, 2010, at 3:44 AM, Louis Schmier wrote: > Chris, good morning. Spencer wrote his Principles of Biology in > 1867, (Darwin’s Origin of Specie was published in 1859) in which he > first coined the phrase “survival of the fittest,” AFTER reading > Darwin, although he relied heavily on Lamarck, and became known as > the “father of Social Darwinism.” These two, Darwin and Spencer, > were later misrepresented in the U.S. to legitimize free enterprise > and free competition, might makes right, and survival of the > fittest by the “robber barons,” perverting a combination of > American individualism, Smith, and Spencer (ignored Smith’s The > Theory of Moral Sentiments). Then, the late 19th century > nationalists extended a combination of Darwin, Spencer, Smith, and > the Comte de Gobineau’s Essay on the Inequality of Human Races to > the survival of the individual nation, turning “nation” into a > biological racial term. > From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca] > Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 10:14 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, > Astronomy, History, and Tragedy > > Louis Schmier wrote: > The Nazi T-4 plan was an application by “men of science,” however > perverted, of Herbert Spencer’s social Darwinism, which, in turn, > twisted Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. > > Just for the record, Spencer was a published evolutionist BEFORE > Darwin was. After Darwin published, he adopted natural selection as > one evolutionary mechanism, among others. Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato paul.bran...@mnsu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=1767 or send a blank email to leave-1767-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
