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David Sloan Wilson - Conscious Evolution

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Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Darwin's theory has been used to justify these practices that justifya inequality. The socialists of the day who were most excited by darwin's theory, because for them, it justified the idea of social change. So we shouldn't have a social safety net. We should just let evolution take its course. And this is all backed up by very good scholarship. There's a single chapter in my book that's devoted to it, but there's a lot of scholarship behind it.

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