NATS 1750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Social Darwinism, Craniometry, Anthropometry
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01/25/2016 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) 4 questions: detail about darwin"s about evolution rest theory itself and its application. Natural selection; what"s the mechanism which causes that. How they work together to create the theory of evolution/evolution. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Who are these people/friends/followers and support him (cid:1) (cid:1) Doesn"t only apply to one animal but any species. How only applies to the animal world, but also to the social world. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Social darwinism; because he didn"t believe it should have applied to humans as animals not as social creatures. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Interested in how social darwinism isn"t darwinism at all. Eugenics: selective breeding principles in society, in the belief that one can improve society in this way. Europe and the usa in the early 20th century, and takes different form in different places.