The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002.
Darwin, Charles
A British naturalist of the nineteenth century. He and others developed the theory of evolution. This theory forms the basis for the modern life sciences. Darwin’s most famous books are The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man.
‡ Darwin’s ideas were later misrepresented by some social theorists, who developed the notion of Social Darwinism to justify practices such as child labor in nineteenth-century England.
