ABSTRACT
Social Darwinism n. Praise of the struggle for existence, unmerciful competition, and social bias under the erroneous excuse that this is what Darwin taught (Mayr 1982, 536). Comments: The concept social Darwinism was created by, and the term was coined by Herbert Spencer. Because Spencer is the intellectual father of this concept, it would be better to call it social Spencerism. Social Darwinism was confused with real Darwinism during the 1880s and 1890s (Mayr 1982, 536, 598, 883). Ruse (1992, 75) also discusses social Darwinism.
