Is it true that the full and original name of Darwin's "Origin of Species" is " "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life"?
2007-05-11 23:58:41 · 10 answers · asked by flandargo 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If "race" means something different then, then why don't we also apply the same to '"theory"? When Darwin used the term 'theory' it was NOT in the sense of the modern scientific theory.
2007-05-12 02:16:58 · update #1
Yes. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Curious as to why you aren't asking this in the biology section?
2007-05-12 00:14:51 · answer #1 · answered by Hero and grunt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On the Origin of SPECIES by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured RACES in the Struggle for Life
or in a word, YES
2007-05-12 00:06:04 · answer #2 · answered by Wire Tapped 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's going on here? Are people seriously taking the 'favoured races' phrase to indicate that Darwin was a racist - and by extension that his work therefore has no merit?
o 'Race' at that time among scientists and naturalists, was synonymous with 'species'. They thought that humans came in different species.
o Darwin's actual words on the subject of race in the book is clear: yes, he thought that human 'species' would be subject to the same pressure as other animal species, and that the 'savage' races would be wiped out by the better-equipped whites - AND HE REGRETTED IT.
Furthermore, if the world hadn't woken up over the next 150 years, HE COULD HAVE BEEN RIGHT: Whites had been committing genocide against other 'races' for hundreds of years.; May I remind people of the damage done to the native Americans by whites?
And, again, he regretted such murderous behaviour, which he thought barbaric. But he also thought it was inevitable.
Get a grip, folks.
CD
2007-05-12 00:29:02 · answer #3 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
My copy says "THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES By Means of Natural Selection".
2007-05-12 00:07:25 · answer #4 · answered by harridan5 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life
2016-04-01 07:51:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and race means breeds. Unless you're really saying that the racing pidgeons discussed within (human evolution is not discussed, nor are races of humans) had races in the modern understanding thereof.
Have you actually read it? It's not terribly long, nor is it hard to undertstand.
2007-05-12 00:52:24 · answer #6 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
now lets also put this in context...
this was written in the 19th century.
unfortunately every one was racist.
today, we understand that race is a culturally constructed concept. the principles are still brilliant in the book, just some of the applications were no-good.... kinda like when the declaration of independence and the constitution were written. we still uphold the main principles... we amended what was wrong.
2007-05-12 00:10:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, and in the context of the time "race" didn't mean black or white humans but rather different breeds, strains or varieties of living things
2007-05-12 00:23:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes it is something like that. When long, difficult to rememeber words and sentences exist, abbreviations thrive.
2007-05-12 00:03:25 · answer #9 · answered by tom 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Species
2007-05-12 00:01:55 · answer #10 · answered by Goldom 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋