What Is The Similarities Between Darwin's White Fang

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Darwin’s begins his revolutionary book the Origin of Species talking about dogs. Darwin argues that dogs evolved from wolves who humans adopted and tamed. Jack London was deeply influence by this idea when he wrote his book White Fang. In the final part of the book Weedon Scott saves the main character White Fang from certain death and adopts him. Scott is the first person to ever show affection, love and care towards White Fang. Because of his affection he is able to tame white fang in a similar way that Darwin thought we tamed the first wolfs we adopted. The similarities between Darwin and Jack London’s book end there. Darwin viewed dogs as being like any other animal and not special. In contrast London wrote White Fang as an intelligent