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The 59 pages that link to Social Darwinism, each with the reason it gives.

• Lewis H. MorganCompared with: Morgan’s evolutionary framework is sometimes conflated with this distinct and politically charged tradition.

• Sociocultural evolutionCompared with: It shows how descriptive claims about social change were turned into political prescriptions.

• Walter Baldwin SpencerRelated: It illuminates the period’s wider debates about evolution, race, and the ranking of human societies.

• Yan FuRelated: Yan Fu adapted its language of competition and survival for Chinese debates about national strength.

• Appeal to natureBroader topic: It illustrates how descriptions of competition in nature have been used to defend social policies.

• ExpansionismRelated: Its language of national struggle was used to rationalize imperial expansion.

• Historical race conceptsRelated: It recast racial rankings as outcomes of supposed natural competition.

• History of sociologyCompared with: Its biological analogies offered a contested alternative to sociological explanations of social difference.

• Huang XianfanCompared with: Huang opposed racialized accounts that treated ethnic groups as unequal or biologically ranked.