<s>[INST] ### Academic Writing

There are various ways in which Darwin's theory of evolution has influenced social sciences. The first two points here should be obvious.
First, his emphasis on competition in the struggle for life unquestionably coloured the thinking of late 19th-century economists and has had a lasting impact on the discipline.
Second, Darwin's idea of 'progress' has afflicted the concept of 'development', which has been used in economics to trace an imagined linear progression from 'undeveloped' to 'developed' countries. In anthropology, these ideas have reinforced existing notions of a developmental sequence in human history.

However, it would be useful to delve deeper and investigate the presence of Darwin's influence on the heuristic of ordinal ranking. Specifically, take a closer look at how ordinal ranking facilitated the projection of social information onto an ordered scale and embody the power relations embedded in society.
 
 Consider the evolutionary tree (affectionately known as the "tree of life"), which is comprised of nodes (representing species) connected by branches. This illustration is telling – it visualises the sequencing and compartmentalization in a particular structure. The structure allowed theoreticians to visually illustrate the process of differentiation, suggesting a gradual change over time and condomition into further specialized forms. Although this had been achieved by other disciplines, via their heuristic methods, the emphasis on a singular, ordered progression (echoing Darwin's 'variation, mutation, adaptation, selection, speciation' mechanism) does not seem to have been explicitly pursued outside the field of biology until the late 19th century.

Furthermore, sociologists like Herbert Spencer and other Social Darwinists explicitly applied the principles of Darwinism to the social realm. It is pivotal in understanding that they took Darwin's idea of a struggle for life a step beyond its original intention. Instead of applying it narrowly to the natural world, they used it to illustrate social processes – consequences of changes in circumstances or novel applications to already existing social phenomena.

 Now I want to examine the impact of Darwinism on one concept in particular: ordinal ranking. In this passage so far I have established how it potentially plays a part in what we can identify as the minds of 19th century Social Darwinists – both through an emphasis on competition as well as supposing existing inequalities can be justified as being naturally selected.

Is it accurate to interpret this piece as an academic text from a field of Social Science?[/INST]