[HN Gopher] Darwin the Man of His Times
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       Darwin the Man of His Times
        
       Author : mrcgnc
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2026-01-01 14:41 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | xg15 wrote:
       | > _All of this reeks of the entrenched (pre-) Victorian British
       | worldview, where it is natural and appropriate for the "more
       | civilized" to look down on the "savages" of "lower order", as if
       | a moral ladder like that were as clear as daylight._
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       | For a long time that literally _was_ the dominant philosophy in
       | the west: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being
        
       | like_any_other wrote:
       | > I cringed while reading his many comparisons between people of
       | different regions, as if they were species of finches
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       | Wasn't exactly that one of the most revolutionary insights of his
       | theory? That humans evolved and are governed by the same forces
       | of natural selection as other animals? It is amusing that, 166
       | years after On the Origin of Species, that part is still
       | controversial.
        
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