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.
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Todes, D. Global Darwin: Contempt for competition. Nature 462, 36–37 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/462036a
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