But evolutionary biology is not an ideology, which one believes in or doesn't.
Like any wily and surviving creature, this new ideology has faced evolutionary pressures and adapted to its ecological niche.
This article reviews this controversy and synthesizes current archaeological approaches to sociopolitical structure, political economy, ideology, warfare, and evolutionary transformations in chiefdoms.
This essay reviews this controversy and synthesizes current archaeological approaches to sociopolitical structure, political economy, ideology, warfare, and evolutionary transformations in chiefdoms.
Moreover, creationists use "Darwinism" to frame evolutionary biology as an ism or ideology, and the public understanding of evolution and science suffers as a result.
There are no mentions of "Social Darwinism," its flaws and misleading impressions, or its status as an ideology not supported by evolutionary science (Allchin 2007a, b). .
Right wing vs. left wing, Republican vs. Democrat, Intelligent Design vs. evolutionary theories, these constant battles of ideology seem to point to a nation wildly divided, but a 2013 poll showed that most Americans are in fact non-extremists and have a centrist mindset.
In my experience, evolutionary scholars are at least as driven by ideology as cultural anthropologists are.
But in a forthcoming book, two evolutionary scientists say this view is born of ideology, not science, and is "based on empirically erroneous, even mythological, ideas about human development, behavior and psychology".
Ultimately, we must judge a scientific argument, whether in support or opposition to an evolutionary scenario, based upon available evidence and not upon the ideologies of the debaters.
