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Nature 461, 1200-1201 (29 October 2009) | doi:10.1038/4611200a; Published online 28 October 2009

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Global Darwin: Eastern enchantment

Marwa Elshakry1

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People from Egypt to Japan used Darwin's ideas to reinvent and reignite their core philosophies and religions, says Marwa Elshakry in the first of four weekly pieces on how evolution was received around the world.

No other nineteenth-century scientist possessed Charles Darwin's global renown. Between the appearance of On the Origin of Species in 1859 and The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex some 12 years later, his works were discussed in scores of languages.