Stephen jay gould , an american evolutionary biologist , who died in 2002 , argued that misunderstandings about darwinism were rife not because the theory is difficult to understand but because people actively avoid trying to understand it .
Republicans construe the democratic positions on these questions as socialism and international decline . Democrats construe the republican positions as social darwinism and militant imperialism .
But the very fact that darwinism is true makes it even more important for us to fight against the naturally selfish and exploitative tendencies of nature .
Whenever biology meets behaviour the spectre of social darwinism and eugenics looms menacingly in the background .
无论何时用生物学解释行为,社会达尔文主义和优生学的幽灵就会在这种背景下浮出水面。
The notion of a universal , objective scale of intelligence , however , did not take shape until the 19th century and the arrival of darwinism .
而普遍、客观的智力等级的概念,直到19世纪达尔文主义的产生才成型。
The us authorities let lehman brothers go bust in the mistaken belief that the finance industry had ample warning to prepare for the consequences of allowing economic darwinism to finally take its course .