Helen J Power, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002488
1820–1903 English sociologist and psychologist best known for his synthetic writings on natural science, evolutionary thinking, social progress and cultural development.
Keywords: psychology; evolutionary theory; Lamarckism; Darwinism; Social Darwinism
| Further Reading | |
| Spencer H (1852) A theory of population, deduced from the general law of animal fertility. Westminster Review (April) 57: 468–501. | |
| book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1972) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Peel JDY (1971) Herbert Spencer: The Evolution of a Sociologist. New York: Basic Books. | |
| book Rylance R (2000) Victorian Psychology and British Culture, 1850–1880. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. | |
| book Wiltshire D (1978) The Social and Political Thought of Herbert Spencer. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. | |
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