Welcome to Evolution

That black and white image of a pretty girl is Death. You'll see her later in the video below. In 1859 Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (usually abbreviated to The Origin of Species). That volume did not contain the phrase "Survival of the fittest." That phrase was coined by Herbert Spencer. He (Spencer) was a Nineteenth Century social theorist. He was a very influentional theorist, a contemporary of Thomas Huxley and John Stuart Mill. As part of the post Enlightenment project he sought scientific explanations for social behavior. But his evolutionary scientism was wrong. He imposed nascent biological theory on more complecated social phenomena. But that was taken up in the new science of evolutionism...and anthropology was its foot soldier. So Lewis Henry Morgan became the new face of social evolution. The idea that human societies evolve in the way that species do and that eventually they would make it to the "peak" that Victorian American society had reached. Such an idea is, of course, absurd. The body of scholarship on the silliness of social and cultural "evolution" is too great to mention. Just go to the library, or ask your local social scientist. But the video I've provided has a great summary of social evolutionary theory...that's what you get. Were social evolution to be real, and taken to it's logical end progression; then we would end up with the product of this video. Fortunatley, this is the not the way human societies work...unless of course, American political economy forces its hand.