Talk:Darwin and Marx
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The great break in the organic chain between man and his nearest allies, which cannot be bridged over by any extinct or living species, has often been advanced as a grave objection to the belief that man is descended from some lower form; but this objection will not appear of much weight to those who, from general reasons, believe in the general principle of evolution. Breaks often occur in all parts of the series, some being wide, sharp and defined, others less so in various degrees; as between the orang and its nearest allies- between the Tarsius and the other Lemuridae- between the elephant, and in a more striking manner between the Ornithorhynchus or Echidna, and all other mammals. But these breaks depend merely on the number of related forms which have become extinct. At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked,* will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.
Someone put this in the Claim section. --tk (t) 14:38, 18 July 2006 (BST)
DB error
I kept trying to put this in the Further Reading but kept getting database errors:
- Ball, Terence, Nov 1979 Marx and Darwin: A Reconsideration. Political Theory, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Nov., 1979), pp. 469-483.
- We currently have a bug that tells everyone who makes changes that they have a "database error." The changes are saved, however, as you can simply check the Recent Changes page, or simply click on the article link. The bug won't let you save changes in order to create a new page, however, as we're waiting for Archsysop User:Steinsky to fix it.--Mr A. 01:33, 2 October 2006 (BST)
Arguments
- This argument assumes Marx's therories were incorrect.
- This does not have any relevance for science, the theory is important, not the views of the person who made it.
--72.139.119.165
- I removed those two from the article. Reasons:
- The first one needs work. At the moment it sounds as if Marx's theories were correct. EvoWiki should not say that, since it is a scientifically-oriented wiki, and evidence does not justify such a claim. But the response has a point... though a weak one.
- The second is already there (response #1). --tk (t) 07:41, 13 October 2006 (BST)
