Darwin's metaphor and his Russian audience; Malthus, Darwin and Russian social thought; Beketov, botany and the harmony of nature; Korzhinskii, the steppe and the theory of heterogensis; Mechnikov, Darwinism and the Phagocytic theory; Kessler and Russia's mutual aid tradition; Kropotkin's theory of mutual aid; Severtsov, Timiriazev and the classical tradition.
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"A fine precise analysis" --The Russian Review
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