Darwin's "Theory of Evolution"

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This paper examines how although Charles Darwin had a major impact on the changing of British society, in America it reached a higher social standing primarily as a result of American society and culture at the time. It looks at the reasons that social Darwinism flourished in America as opposed to Britain and how the publication of "The Origin of Species" in America sparked a radical change in how evolutionism was viewed.

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"When Darwin wrote the Origin of the Species in 1859, it was not his vision that the controversial book would become popular among the working class society in nineteenth century Britain. The book was extremely dense, detailed and initially was only read among middle class Victorians. However a group of scientists that received the first copies of the book used the revelations within its pages to attack the elite in Britain and soon became the 'exemplars of the challenge posed by men of science to the cultural authority of the clergy.'"

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