Save for Anthropologists, few social scientists have been among the participants in the
discussions about the appropriate structure of a 'Universal Darwinism'. Yet evolutionary …

How should social scientists, inclined to an evolutionary theory of aspects of human culture
like science, technology, business organization and practice, react to proposals that they …

It has been argued repeatedly that the modern study of social and cultural evolution took its
inspiration and form from Charles Darwin's Origin of Species and Descent of Man. In 1920 …

At least since the time of Darwin, there has been a tradition of borrowing between
evolutionary theory and the social sciences. Darwin himself owed a debt to the Scottish …

Richard Dawkins coined the term universal Darwinism (1983). It suggests that the core
Darwinian principles of variation, replication, and selection may apply not only to biological …

" Although Charles Darwin predicted that his theory'would give zest to... metaphysics,'even
he would be astonished at the variety of paths his theory has in fact taken. This holds with …

In little more than a hundred years the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin has conquered
the thinking world. No other body of ideas has enjoyed such unrivaled success. But …

Considering the variety of contradictory definitions which have been attributed to the term in
the course of more than a century, one may be tempted to admit that 'Social Darwinism'can …

Darwin himself suggested the idea of generalizing the core Darwinian principles to cover the
evolution of social entities. Also in the nineteenth century, influential social scientists …

Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology-from systematics and principles of
evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and …