The book is considered an effort to complete the Darwinian revolution by bringing biological thought into social sciences and humanities.
Without miracles: Universal selection theory and the second Darwinian revolution.
These ideas originated in the ethnocentrism of mainstream anthropological thought, which was strongly coloured by both the romantic movement and the Darwinian revolution in science.
By the end of the nineteenth century, the Darwinian revolution appeared to offer scientific proof of the processes of evolution.
We grasp at the straw of progress (a desiccated ideological twig) because we are still not ready for the Darwinian revolution.
This original theory became less relevant because of the Darwinian revolution, which demonstrated how change happens over time.
The acceptance of those ideas is what Mayr calls the first Darwinian revolution.
At that time, in what he calls the second Darwinian revolution, most authorities came to agree with Darwin's remaining theories.
As concern for the environment grows, this area may eventually come to rival the Darwinian revolution as a subject for scholarly analysis.
The disputes surrounding the Darwinian revolution contributed to the birth of the conflict thesis.