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From Speciation to SpecializationOn the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Charles Darwin
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 85, Number 3, Fall 2018
- pp. 661-685
- 10.1353/sor.2018.0038
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Abstract:
The essay explores lessons from Darwinian natural history for a theory of human history and human society, of a non-biologistic and non-Social-Darwinist kind. It looks in particular at the differences and communalities between speciation in nature and specialization in society, drawing on the traditions of Smith, Durkheim, and Marx in particular.