Darwinism and race progress

Darwinism and social Darwinism.

Public Health Progress and Race Progress--are They Incompatible?

Entered as second-class matter July 18, 1923, at the Post Offlce at Lancaster, Pa., under the Act of March 8, 1879. THE public health workers, the social workers, the civilizers, we are told, are corrupting the race; are destroying the race. By protecting us from our enemies, the bacteria and the viruses; by removing the sources of disease; by showing us how to avoid unfavorable conditions and,...

Darwinism

Neural Darwinism and Consciousness 1 RUNNING HEAD: Neural Darwinism and Consciousness Neural Darwinism and Consciousness

Neural Darwinism (ND), also called the Theory of Neuronal Group Selection (TNGS) is a biological theory of brain development and function which is based on evolutionary and developmental principles. ND highlights the importance of selectionist processes underlying these principles. The aim of this literature review is to capture and summarize the essentials of both ND and its theoretical extens...

Darwinism and cultural change.

Evolutionary models of cultural change have acquired an important role in attempts to explain the course of human evolution, especially our specialization in knowledge-gathering and intelligent control of environments. In both biological and cultural change, different patterns of explanation become relevant at different 'grains' of analysis and in contexts associated with different explanatory ...