For 10 points, name this formulator of the "dangerous idea" of natural selection.
Many of this man's ideas were popularized in America through the writings of Chauncey Wright, who linked them with the principles of utilitarianism. Â A theory originally formulated by this man is the subject of an equation by R.A. Fisher that links a rate of change of a certain property to its variance at that point in time; that theory is also the subject of Price's Equation. Â He split one of his ideas into unconscious and methodical types depending on whether it was purposeful. Â One book about this man argues that his opponents tried to refute him with (*) skyhooks and that his theories were so revolutionary that they acted as a universal acid. Â He concluded that members of different races were all human in The Descent of Man. Â For 10 points, name this formulator of the "dangerous idea" of natural selection.
Many of this man's ideas were popularized in America through the writings of Chauncey Wright, who linked them with the principles of utilitarianism.
Charles Darwin [accept natural selection during the first few sentences]