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CS2007 Darwin & Communication Theory, Key idea, Key idea, key idea,…

- - - - communist manifesto & socialist revolutionaries
    - - psychoanalysis: sons regarding their fathers as rival for their mother's sexual attention
    - - sparked debate between creationism vs evolution
  - - - from producing 2 books per year, to producing 1 book per day: books became accessible, knowledge became accessible
        
        Then, India was found & trade with Asia began--operated with a capitalist system, Medici family started a bank with a full banking system & supported several intellectual institutions.
        
        Galileo Galilei, Leonardo Da Vinci was funded heavily by the Medici family & the fore-runners of the scientific innovations in the Renaissance
        
        Catholic Church lost power due to printing. priests were no longer the sole interpreters of the Bible.
        
        Protestant revolt against the Catholic Church in the context of printing press and capitalism.
    - - Liberal Arts Approach
      - German model of Research
- - - - Natural Selection = new species arise while other species become extinct due to Differential Survival
  - - - Gained confidence in his scientific abilities after writing and publishing books on geology--made connections in the scholarly scientific network
  - - - population pressure creates a struggle for existence & life compete for available food
        
        there is a selective force, weeding out the weak and survival of the strong who can get food
    - - frequency curve to distribute how some people possess more of a certain characteristic that enable them to fit better with their environment
    - - argued that the earth had undergone geological change
        
        Sendimentary rocks & environments are not static over vast stretches of time
    - - Biological needs determine the development of various body organs and inheriting down the generations through modified genes
        
        Lamarck was proved wrong by advances in genetics research (Gregor Mendel) as acquired (experienced) traits are not inherited.
        
        Darwin's idea: due to random variation in sexual reproduction, some individuals are better suited to their environment
    - - recommended and championed the laissez-faire capitalism for the industrial revolution
        
        meaning superior individuals should rise to the top of society (basically rich people should rule & poor people are meant to be governed) it's all morally very dubious & darwin did not like spencer's social darwinism
    - - invisible hand, self interest as a universal motivation that governs individual competition and will lead to maximum benefit for society
        
        markets should not be intervened by the government (ignores market failure)
        
        division of labour is more productive
        
        darwin saw a biological parallel to economic competition & humans have a biological competition among individuals of the same species
  - - - Finches in the Galapos Islands
        
        one original species could evolve into several distinct species that could no longer interbreed