Charles Darwin’s Influence on Politics

Charles Darwin’s influential 1859 book The Origins of Species introduced humanity to evolution, natural selection, and how humans and all other creatures, whether mammals, plants, or others, have evolved over thousands of years.

Darwin’s theory of evolution promotes survival of the fittest through the toughness of our environments, which allows creatures who have adapted and are the most successful to survive.

His revolutionary theories also negatively impacted political thinking throughout the 19th and 20th centuries inadvertently…