Darwin's Legacy | Lecture 7

November 3, 2008 lecture by Professor Melissa Brown for the Stanford Continuing Studies course on Darwin's Legacy (DAR 200). Professor Brown speaks about the history and consequences of social Darwinism, and offers insight into new ways of thinking about social evolution.

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[xMasterJuiceX]

its awesome they have all these up on youtube for free, i love the internet

[Danielbatten76]

This is a most amazingly useful way to spend time. I am most grateful that I am able to download and watch it later too. THANK YOU STANFORD U!!!!

[LachezarTsK]

Happy New Year Stanford !!!

[BigFatHeretic]

Politics is as unscientific as religion. Leave it up to politicians, especially those on the right wing to come up with stupid moronic ideas.

[BigFatHeretic]

To be sure, Darwin was not correct in all of his assertions, but then, Galileo was incorrect in his explanation as to what causes the tides. That had to wait until Isaac Newton came along with his laws of motion and gravity. Aside from that, both Galileo and Darwin were right on in most of their theories. And of course, Darwin didn't know about genes or DNA, which now confirms most of Darwin's theory of Evolution.

[dltanner99]

A novel about an alternative view of evolution see video book trailer

[unassumption]

is glad he didn't read descent of man when he was Impressionable, i've yet to meet someone from a savage race so I'd probably take his word for it on their inferiority XD