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Sciences > Sociology Understanding social Darwinism: 2 of 6

Social Darwinism is based upon the popular notion of "survival of the fittest," in which fitness is mistaken for rightness. When scientists refer to fitness, they're talking about a process in which the genotype of the individual who reproduces the most becomes more common. The individual's phenotype, or genes plus environment, determine the individual's fitness. And when we look at the environment portion of the phenotype, we see that evolution is random. When biologists like Richard Dawkins describe evolution as being non-random, what they mean is that natural selection does not do crazy...
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