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Darwinism is often what opponents to evolution call evolution to make it sound like some sort of Darwin cult, but it can also be used to just refer to evolution through natural selection as it was understood in the late 1800s, though that is usually called darwinian evolution rather than "darwinism".

Also social darwinism is the application of natural selection to human civilization, the idea that the poor should starve to death because they're "weaker" etc. A faulty injection of biological science into social philosophy.

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