Richardson, John - Nietzsche’s New Darwinism

Most of what Nietzsche says about Darwin and Darwinism is hostile. Indeed the most striking things he says reach the pitch of denunciation and personal insult. He likes to call Darwin "mediocre," and attacks Darwinism on a host of theoretical and evaluative grounds.

But I think this pointed animosity is—here as often elsewhere in Nietzsche's campaigns—misleading. He is so eager to distinguish himself, because he knows how much he has taken over from Darwin—how big a part of his own view, this Darwinism looms.