What Is Social Darwinism

question 74

Multiple Choice

What is social Darwinism?

• A) the idea that man evolved from monkeys
• B) a theory that applied Darwin's theory of "survival of the fittest" to human society
• C) the idea that blacks, not whites, evolved from monkeys
• D) the theory that all human males were less social animals than human females, and were therefore superior

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