Although they were commonly called "Social Darwinists," advocates of economic, national, or racial "survival of the fittest" ideas actually drew less on biologist Charles Darwin than on

A. English philosopher Herbert Spencer and Yale professor William Graham Sumner.
B. German philosophers like G.W.F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche.
C. American literary figures like Jack London and Theodore Dreiser.
D. European scientists like Gregor Mendel and Louis Pasteur.
E. racist theorists like Arthur Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain.


Answer: A

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