Darwin without Malthus: The Struggle for Existence in Russian Evolutionary Thought

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Oxford University Press, 1989 M07 13 - 238 páginas
The first book in English to examine in detail the scientific work of 19th-century Russian evolutionists, and the first in any language to explore the relationship of their theories to their economic, political, and natural milieu.
 

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Introduction
3
1 Darwins Metaphor and His Russian Audience
7
2 Malthus Darwin and Russian Social Thought
24
3 Beketov Botany and the Harmony of Nature
45
4 Korzhinskii the Steppe and the Theory of Heterogenesis
62
5 Mechnikov Darwinism and the Phagocytic Theory
82
6 Kessler and Russias Mutual Aid Tradition
104
7 Kropotkins Theory of Mutual Aid
123
8 Severtsov Timiriazev and the Classical Tradition
143
Conclusion
166
Notes
173
Name Index
213
Subject Index
217
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