Darwinism

Darwinism refers to the ideas of Charles Darwin concerning evolution and natural selection that have been summed up the phrase “survival of the fittest.” Darwinism asserts that evolution is likely to occur in any system given processes of self-replication / inheritance, variation and selection by whatever means. Darwinism may also be used to refer to evolution in a broader sense and has influenced various disciplines since its proposal, such as social theories which apply principles of “struggle” to society or to illustrate computer systems. Those biologist and scientists who advocate evolution by natural selection and further Darwinism have become known as neo-Darwinists. Surprisingly Darwinian theories have been proposed as explanations of the origin of the universe we live in.