How does Darwin’s Darwinism relate to social Darwinism and eugenics? Likemany foes ofDarwinism, past and present, theAmerican populist and creationist William Jennings Bryan thought a straight line ran from Darwin’s theory (‘a dogma of darkness and death’) to beliefs that it is right for the strong to crowd out the weak, and that the only hope for human improvement lay in selective breeding.1 D...