LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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Darwin was primarily interested in preserving the concept of superior races.
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Lombroso and Darwin worked on the theory of Social Darwinism together.
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The theory of Social Darwinism developed from philosophies
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Freud heavily influenced Lombroso’s work on the evolution and devolution of human beings.
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Detailed explanation-1: -social Darwinism, the theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin perceived in plants and animals in nature.
Detailed explanation-2: -Social Darwinists believe in “survival of the fittest”-the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better. Social Darwinism has been used to justify imperialism, racism, eugenics and social inequality at various times over the past century and a half.
Detailed explanation-3: -Alfred Russel Wallace He was the first person to come up with the idea of natural selection; however, as he and Charles Darwin were working together, they shared their theories and presented evolution theory.
Detailed explanation-4: -Herbert Spencer is famous for his doctrine of social Darwinism, which asserted that the principles of evolution, including natural selection, apply to human societies, social classes, and individuals as well as to biological species developing over geologic time.