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Darwin's Impact On Society

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The society value in the understanding the Darwin's theory changed many humanities living system. Politics is one of those which been changed with the Darwin’s Ideas and this lead to not only the social Darwinist i.e. the various ways of thinking and theories that emerged in the second half of the 19th century and tried to apply the evolutionary concept of natural selection to human society but also, the formation of the Nazis, communists, anarchists and Fabian social engineers. The resultant effect of the Darwin's theory to society is that because the theory of evolution includes an explanation of humanity's origins, it has had a profound impact on human societies by different ways such as religious implications (e.g. its futuristic rejection
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