Social Darwinism and Fitness History Final Essay

Belgrad

AMS 2270

Social Darwinism and Fitness

I. Coordination and Fitness

A. Bernarr McFadden and Physical Culture

B. Organized Play and Teamwork

C. Adolescents and Evolution

II. Social Darwinism: “Survival of the Fittest”

A. Back-to-Nature

B. “race suicide”

Other key terms: "overcivilized"

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt