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Global Darwin: Contempt for competition

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Darwin's idea of the 'struggle for existence' struck a chord with his fellow countrymen. But Russians rejected the alien metaphor, says Daniel Todes, in the second of four weekly pieces on reactions to evolutionary theory.

In On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin acknowledged his intellectual debt to the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus. That debt had radically different consequences for his British and Russian readers.

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