J. Doyne Farmer Quote

One of the factors that caused Spencer's ideas to lose popularity was social Darwinism... Social evolution is different from biological evolution: it's faster, it's Lamarckian, and it makes even heavier use of altruism and cooperation than biological evolution does. None of this was well understood at the time.


The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1995)


One of the factors that caused Spencer's ideas to lose popularity was social Darwinism... Social evolution is different from biological evolution:...

One of the factors that caused Spencer's ideas to lose popularity was social Darwinism... Social evolution is different from biological evolution:...

One of the factors that caused Spencer's ideas to lose popularity was social Darwinism... Social evolution is different from biological evolution:...

One of the factors that caused Spencer's ideas to lose popularity was social Darwinism... Social evolution is different from biological evolution:...