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    Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist...
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    Herbert Spencer Gasser (July 5, 1888 – May 11, 1963) was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944...
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    forceful critics of Carlyle's formulation of the great man theory was Herbert Spencer, who believed that attributing historical events to the decisions of...
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  • Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) was an English philosopher, biologist and sociologist. Herbert Spencer may also refer to: Herbert Spencer (graphic designer)...
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    common analogy called the organic or biological analogy, popularized by Herbert Spencer, presents these parts of society as human body "organs" that work toward...
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    Spencer James Cox (born July 11, 1975) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 18th governor of Utah since 2021. A member of the Republican...
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  • Herbert Spencer (22 June 1924 – 11 March 2002) was a British designer, editor, writer, photographer and teacher. He was born in London. Spencer was an...
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    Sociology (section Spencer)
    evidence more zealous and the attention to method more intense.: 13–14  Herbert Spencer was one of the most popular and influential 19th-century sociologists...
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    Herbert Spencer Jennings (April 8, 1868 – April 14, 1947) was an American zoologist, geneticist, and eugenicist. His research helped demonstrate the link...
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    thought—particularly the work of Herbert Spencer, even declaring Spencer his teacher. Although Carnegie claimed to be a disciple of Spencer, many of his actions went...
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    of Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer (who coined the phrase "survival of the fittest") and William Graham Sumner. In many ways Spencer's theory of 'cosmic...
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  • fitness. Fitness does not include a measure of survival or life-span; Herbert Spencer's well-known phrase "survival of the fittest" should be interpreted...
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  • Herbert Harvey Spencer (1869 – 23 February 1926) was an English stuff manufacturer and trader and Liberal Party politician. Spencer was married and had...
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    Spencer Chandra Herbert is a Canadian politician who serves in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in Canada. Representing the British Columbia...
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    general, including earlier concepts published by English philosopher Herbert Spencer. Many of the proponents of Darwinism at that time, including Huxley...
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  • sociocultural-evolution theories  – the ideas of Auguste Comte (1798–1857), Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) and Lewis Henry Morgan (1818–1881)  – developed simultaneously...
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  • Herbert Winfield Spencer (April 7, 1905 – September 18, 1992) was a Chilean-born American film and television composer and orchestrator. Spencer gained...
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    Projections of Social Forms), and Fundamental Questions of Sociology (1917). Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), the English philosopher, was one of the most popular and...
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    Survival of the fittest (category Herbert Spencer)
    that in successive generations will leave most copies of itself." Herbert Spencer first used the phrase, after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin...
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    Herbert Spencer Hadley (February 20, 1872 – December 1, 1927) was an American lawyer and a Republican Party politician from St. Louis, Missouri. Born...
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  • Herbert Spencer Zim (July 12, 1909 – December 5, 1994) was a naturalist, author, editor and educator best known as the founder (1945) and editor-in-chief...
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    integration and gene shuffling along evolution. The 19th-century thinker Herbert Spencer coined the term super-organic to focus on social organization (the...
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    that the paper clip was invented by English intellectual Herbert Spencer (1820–1903). Spencer registered a "binding-pin" on 2 September 1846, which was...
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  • George Polya Herbert A. Simon Daniel Kahneman Amos Tversky Gerd Gigerenzer Judea Pearl Robin Dunbar David Perkins Page Herbert Spencer Charles Alexander...
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    included Spencer's phrase as an alternative to natural selection, with credit given: "But the expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival...
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    Herbert Spencer Barber (1882 – 1950) was an American entomologist. Herbert was born on April 12, 1882, in Yankton, South Dakota, to Amherst Willoughby...
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    mainstream. While few naturalists were willing to consider transmutation, Herbert Spencer became an active proponent of Lamarckism and progressive development...
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    Herbert Ritchie Spencer FRCP (16 January 1860 – 28 August 1941) was professor of obstetrics at University College London. Spencer wrote numerous articles...
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    The Man Versus the State (category Herbert Spencer)
    The Man Versus the State is a work of political theory by Herbert Spencer. It was first published in book form in 1884 by Williams and Norgate, London...
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    for his contributions to the field of neuroscience. Together with Herbert Spencer Gasser, he identified several varieties of nerve fiber and established...
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