Herbert Beck Spencer1929 ~ 2015Herbert Beck Spencer was born in Murray, Utah May 6, 1929, to LaZella Beck and Herbert G. Spencer, who preceded him in death.
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In Hofstadter's telling, Spencer was the driving force behind "social Darwinism," the pseudo-scientific use of evolution to justify economic and social...
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Herbert Spencer, who has died aged 77, was one of the most influential British communication designers and typographers. By Rick Poynor.
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According to Kitcher, the whole ugly business is the fault of Herbert Spencer, a classical liberal thinker whose writings are (to understate) no longer widely...
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A Victorian sociologist who coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" and invented the paper clip has been honoured in Derby with a blue plaque.
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An evolutionary biologist and a science fiction writer walk into a bar... and mull over survival.
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Before the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Suffolk County became “the global center of the eugenics movement,” eugenics had roots in...
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