…as a result, the neo-Darwinists went even farther than the Victorian variety. If old school social Darwinists like Herbert Spencer viewed nature as a marketplace, albeit unusually cutthroat one, the new version was outright capitalist. The neo-Darwinists assume…

…were actually talking to each other. Like the phrase survival of the fittest was not invented by Darwin. Darwin got it from Spencer. And Spencer was a sociologist. He was actually a free market guy. And he read an early draft of Darwin and said,…

…actually talking to each other. Like the phrase survival of the fittest was not invented by Darwin. Darwin got it from Spencer. And Spencer was a sociologist. He was actually a free market guy. And he read an early draft of Darwin and said, yeah, that's…

…side, more on the market side? Those are the two sort of logical human possibilities. Ever since people like Herbert Spencer wrote in the early 19th century, we've always assumed there's an opposition between these things. Historically, in fact, no.…

…have this little paradigm. It still governs the way we talk about things, even though the intellectual avatars like Herbert Spencer of the 19th century, nobody takes them seriously anymore. But nonetheless, it's their ideas that get endlessly reproduced, which…