(AP) Social Darwinism, a popular topic in the 19th and early 20th centuries, is making its way into modern American politics. President Barack Obama invoked the theory this week to criticize his ...

If Barack Obama wanted to insult the political right in America, he picked an unusual way to do it. And I’m pretty sure his use of the term “social Darwinism” was a deliberate insult. While such ...

David Sloan Wilson, the author of Evolution for Everyone, will share how evolution can function as a general theoretical framework for public policy formulation in the same way that it works in the ...

A new article examines the question of what Darwinism is and how its nonscientific uses relate to the scientific theory of evolution. The authors observe that while some people claim Darwinism's ...

We've heard the evolutionary term, "survival of the fittest." A more descriptive popular definition would be, "those organisms best adapted to existing conditions are able to survive." There is a long ...

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The charge that if you defend free markets and limited government, then you’re a Social Darwinist is a hackneyed and dishonest claim of the Left. I’m not sure who first tried to identify conservative ...