Surface mail to Readers' editor, The Guardian, 119 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3ER. Readers may contact the office of the readers' editor by telephoning 020-7239 9589 between 11am and 5pm Monday to Friday. Spencer thought government should be little more than a referee in the highly competitive 'survival of the fittest.' Spencers theory of social evolution, called Social Darwinism by others. It is Guardian policy to correct significant errors as soon as possible. The 'Fittest' and the 'Unfit' Herbert Spencer based his concept of social evolution, popularly known as 'Social Darwinism,' on individual competition. Homophone corner, from our piece about "supercouples", page 4, G2, May 25, "How can they bare the giddiness of so much specialness?" In fact, Ecomog is not a United Nations operation and when the documentary was made the UN had no troops in Sierra Leone.ĭavid Lammy was selected to fight the Tottenham by-election for Labour with 51.9% of the vote, not 59.1%, the figure in a front page report, May 26. Indeed, Herbert Spencer having read Darwin’s thesis compared it to his own economic theories and coined the phrase ‘survival of the ttest’. Spencer was an engineer, philosopher, and psychologist, who in his day was as famous as Darwin. In our piece about a documentary on Sierra Leone, shown at Cannes, page 12, May 25, we referred to UN-backed Ecomog troops. he outlined his theory of evolution by natural selec-tion and though his views were initially criticised the scientic community soon came to fully appreciate the signicance of his work. The National Botanic Garden of Wales is near Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, not Dyfed as we said in a caption, page 13, May 25.
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