The botanist V. N. Sukachev and the development of Darwin’s ideas in Russia

Yasha Gall

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Darwin’s concepts on the struggle for existence and natural selection were widely discussed in Russian academic and public press from the second half of the nineteenth to the first quarter of the twentieth century. Apart from Darwin’s interpretation of the struggle for existence and natural selection, a number of competing theories emerged. There was only one way to solve this problem. It was necessary to create experimental models that could confirm or correct Darwin’s theory. This paper aims to analyze the experimental research on the struggle for existence developed by the Russian botanist V. N. Sukachev in the 1920s-50s.

 

Key words: Vladimir Nikolaevich Sukachev, experimental models of the struggle for existence and natural selection, evolutionary theory in Russia.

 


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