<resource xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:datacite="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4" xmlns:oaire="http://namespace.openaire.eu/schema/oaire/" xsi:schemaLocation="http://namespace.openaire.eu/schema/oaire/ https://www.openaire.eu/schema/repo-lit/4.0/openaire.xsd"><datacite:identifier identifierType="DOI">10.46298/societes-plurielles.2026.17325</datacite:identifier><datacite:alternateIdentifiers><datacite:alternateIdentifier alternateIdentifierType="URL">http://societes-plurielles.episciences.org/17325</datacite:alternateIdentifier></datacite:alternateIdentifiers><datacite:creators><datacite:creator><datacite:creatorName>Tort, Patrick</datacite:creatorName><datacite:givenName>Patrick</datacite:givenName><datacite:familyName>Tort</datacite:familyName><datacite:affiliation>Charles Darwin Foundation</datacite:affiliation><datacite:nameIdentifier nameIdentifierScheme="ROR" schemeURI="https://ror.org/">https://ror.org/01h9g5w38</datacite:nameIdentifier></datacite:creator></datacite:creators><datacite:titles><datacite:title xml:lang="en">On the Reversive Effect of Evolution: A Brief Response to Bernard Lahire</datacite:title><datacite:title xml:lang="fr">Sur l’effet réversif de l’évolution: Une brève réponse à Bernard Lahire</datacite:title></datacite:titles><dc:description xml:lang="en">The concept of the reversive effect of evolution, introduced by Patrick Tort into Darwinian studies in 1983, has profoundly unsettled a great many received ideas about Darwin and about his understanding of the civilizing process. In The Descent of Man (1871), Darwin explains with the utmost clarity that, in acting powerfully upon social instincts and rational capacities, natural selection selects civilization—an outcome that stands in opposition to the (now archaic) eliminatory dynamic of natural selection by seeking to transform the human environment into an aid to survival.</dc:description><dc:description xml:lang="fr">Le concept d’effet réversif de l’évolution, introduit par Patrick Tort dans les études darwiniennes en 1983, a profondément bouleversé un grand nombre d’idées reçues à propos de Darwin et de sa vision du processus de civilisation. Dans La Filiation de l’homme de 1871, ce dernier explique en effet avec la plus grande clarté que, s’exerçant puissamment sur les instincts sociaux et les capacités rationnelles, la sélection naturelle sélectionne la civilisation, qui s’oppose à la dynamique éliminatoire (désormais archaïque) de la sélection naturelle en s’efforçant de transformer le milieu humain en auxiliaire de survie.</dc:description><datacite:subjects><datacite:subject subjectScheme="author">reversive effect of evolution</datacite:subject><datacite:subject subjectScheme="author">Wallace (Alfred Russel)</datacite:subject><datacite:subject subjectScheme="author">natural selection</datacite:subject><datacite:subject subjectScheme="author">Darwin (Charles Robert)</datacite:subject><datacite:subject subjectScheme="author">civilization</datacite:subject><datacite:subject subjectScheme="author">darwinian anthropology</datacite:subject><datacite:subject subjectScheme="author">Wallace (Alfred Russel)</datacite:subject><datacite:subject subjectScheme="author">sélection naturelle</datacite:subject><datacite:subject subjectScheme="author">effet réversif de l’évolution</datacite:subject><datacite:subject subjectScheme="author">Darwin (Charles Robert)</datacite:subject><datacite:subject subjectScheme="author">civilisation</datacite:subject><datacite:subject subjectScheme="author">anthropologie darwinienne</datacite:subject><datacite:subject subjectScheme="author">[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences</datacite:subject></datacite:subjects><oaire:licenseCondition startDate="2026-01-16 15:41:11" uri="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0">Attribution - Pas d’Utilisation Commerciale 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)</oaire:licenseCondition><datacite:dates><datacite:date dateType="Accepted">2026-01-16</datacite:date><datacite:date dateType="Issued">2026-01-16</datacite:date><datacite:date dateType="Available">2026-01-16</datacite:date></datacite:dates><dc:language>fra</dc:language><dc:publisher>Presses de l’Inalco</dc:publisher><oaire:resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="literature" uri="http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501">journal        article    </oaire:resourceType><datacite:relatedIdentifiers><datacite:relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType="URL" relationType="IsIdenticalTo">https://hal.science/hal-05460471v1</datacite:relatedIdentifier><datacite:relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType="ISSN" relationType="IsPartOf">2557-9959</datacite:relatedIdentifier></datacite:relatedIdentifiers><datacite:rights rightsURI="http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2">open access</datacite:rights><oaire:file accessRightsURI="http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2" mimeType="application/pdf" objectType="fulltext">http://societes-plurielles.episciences.org/17325/pdf</oaire:file><oaire:version uri="http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85">VoR</oaire:version><dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format><oaire:citationTitle>Sociétés plurielles</oaire:citationTitle><oaire:citationVolume>Around Bernard Lahire, « Les structures fondamentales des sociétés humaines », 2023</oaire:citationVolume><oaire:citationIssue>Articles</oaire:citationIssue><dcterms:audience>Researchers</dcterms:audience><dcterms:audience>Students</dcterms:audience></resource>