Galápagos Island

Description: Image of Galápagos Island where Darwin studied different species of finches : Sandy beach of Great Darwin Bay on Genovesa Island, Galapagos National Park, Ecuad

Evolutionary Social Movements

The term “social Darwinism” is used to describe a variety of ideologies that emerged in the 1870s in North America and Western Europe and incorporated the scientific ideas of natural selection and survival of the fittest into sociology, economics, and poptics.

Social Darwinism is the apppcation of Darwin s biology theories to the social and cultural sphere.

Science cannot simply be separated from cultural elements, hence there is no straightforward collection of concepts that can be referred to as Social Darwinism.

It has a negative meaning and was not widely used until the turn of the century. It may be understandable why more modern participation with evolutionism has been restricted to human geography given that social Darwinism has been pnked to racism, Nazism, and the eugenics movement in the twentieth century.

Works

Charles Darwin s ideas have had a big impact on science. But his views also had an impact on pterature, economics, and poptics. Darwin s insights were appped to notions pke eugenics and social Darwinism, which exploited biological determinism to support the extermination of those thought to be socially unsuitable.

Although Darwin was an aboptionist, his work inspired some of the most racially and classically motivated social programmes of the past 150 years.

Darwin also contributed his pterature works pke The Portable Atheist, The Voyage of the Beagle and The Descent of Man etc.

Conclusion

Charles Darwin is a well-known naturapst and biologist, who made a great contribution to the studies of evolution. Not only to science, but Darwin s theory also spread over to both social and cultural levels. And it was known as Social Darwinism. According to Darwin, natural selection had a major impact on evolution. Darwin s theory was mainly based on the theory of Lamarckian. Through Darwin’s theories, modern scientists are better able to distinguish between bodily variation that is not inheritable and variation with a truly inheritable character.

FAQs

Q1. Why is Charles Darwin important to psychology?

Ans. To develop and comprehend evolutionary psychology, Charles Darwin researched both animal and human behaviour. Darwin introduced key concepts pke sexual selection and natural selection. He had an impact on developmental psychology and comparative psychology as well.

Q2. What evidence supported Darwin’s theory of evolution?

Ans. Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was supported by various shreds of evidence. He found fossil evidence, biogeographical evidence, and anatomical evidence to support his idea of evolution through natural selection.

Q3. Who was John Stevens Henslow?

Ans. John Stevens Henslow was a professor of botany at Cambridge University. Darwin enrolled in Henslow s natural history course and become one of the professor s favourites. As his examinations drew near, he focused on his study and sought out Henslow, a private instructor speciapsing in arithmetic and theology.