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    All three articles listed above include discussion of some aspects of Darwinism and the theory of Evolution.  The
    authors who are subjects of these essays each hold different points of view. theory of evolution as far as human beings
    are concThe Australian philosopher, DAVID STOVE, was extremely critical, rejecting the theory of evolution as far as human
    beings are
    cPAUL RUBIN shares with FRIEDRICH HAYEK the view that cultural evolution is not unlike biological evolution in that
    the most successful social practices tend to survive and the least successful to fade or disappear. The mechanism by
    which this kind of process acts is called tradition. Rubin applies this idea to economics and politics.

    The Australian philosopher, DAVID STOVE, was extremely critical, rejecting  the theory of evolution as far as
    human beings are concerned.

    RAYMOND TALLIS, a specialist in geriatrics, discusses Darwinism among a multitude of other contemporary
    interests, such as post-modernist literary theory and relativism.
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