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Dr. D. Collin Wells Summary

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Dr. D. Collin Wells was a professor at Dartmouth college, a private Ivy League Research University in New Hampshire, United States. Most of his papers are situated around sociological and anthropological contexts of which he also relates to the physiological and evolution of mankind and its civilizations and institutions. His paper, Social Darwinism, is shown in the American Journal of Sociology which contained an assortment of journals from various authors regarding analysis and research from all areas of the social sciences. Many of his ideas in his essay prove to be quite astounding in the sense that they tend compliment the writings of Alfred Russell Wallace and Charles Darwin, himself. In addition to that, some of the concepts discussed

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