KnowraDarwinismLinked fromLinked fromThe 15 pages that link to Darwinism, each with the reason it gives.All 15Related 7Narrower topic 2Compared with 6Charles DarwinNarrower topic: The term names the broader intellectual tradition built around Darwin’s work.EugenicsRelated: Eugenicists adapted evolutionary language to advocate deliberate human selection.Scientific racismRelated: Some writers applied evolutionary language to social hierarchy in ways not established by biological evidence.AgnosticismRelated: Evolution intensified Victorian conflicts over scripture, natural explanation, and religious certainty.LamarckismCompared with: Darwin’s central mechanism, natural selection, does not require acquired traits to be inherited.Thomas Henry HuxleyRelated: Huxley helped establish Darwin’s theory as a serious public and scientific position.H. G. WellsRelated: The theory informs Wells’s portrayals of struggle, adaptation, and human decline.Jean-Baptiste LamarckCompared with: Its emphasis on selection contrasts with Lamarck’s proposed inheritance of use-induced changes.Louis AgassizCompared with: Agassiz publicly resisted Darwinian explanations as they gained influence among naturalists.Science and religionRelated: Evolution became a major modern test case for religious interpretations of human origins.Recapitulation theoryNarrower topic: Haeckel framed recapitulation as a developmental interpretation of evolutionary descent.MutationismCompared with: Mutationism arose partly as a challenge to Darwinian accounts centered on gradual selection.Kunstformen der NaturRelated: Haeckel’s evolutionary outlook informed his interpretation of organismal diversity and form.D'Arcy Wentworth ThompsonCompared with: Thompson emphasized physical and mathematical causes of form rather than selection alone.Carl NägeliCompared with: Nägeli accepted evolution but disputed natural selection’s ability to explain the direction and origin of variation.