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Global Darwin: Revolutionary road

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In China, under the threat of Western imperialism, interpretations of Darwin's ideas paved the way for Marx, Lenin and Mao, argues James Pusey in the third in our series on reactions to evolutionary theory.

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  1. James Pusey is a professor of Chinese Studies at Bucknell University, 701 Moore Avenue, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837, USA. He is the author of China and Charles Darwin (1983) and Lu Xun and Evolution (1998). pusey@bucknell.edu,

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