<Para ID="Par1">In this paper, I examine economist F. A. von Hayek’s views on social evolution and contrast them with T. H. Huxley’s famous critique of evolutionary ethics. My analysis seeks to bring to the fore fundamental discrepancies between evolutionary explanations that are descriptive and political...</para>

"In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. . . . Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." This statement, which appears in the concluding chapter to the Origin of Species, was Darwin's only mention of human evolution in the entire book. Aware...