The shadow of "the Eclipse of Darwinism": the problem of evolutionary mechanisms in Republican China, 1910s-1930s.

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How did Chinese scientific intellectuals react to the dispute over evolutionary mechanisms during the period of the "eclipse of Darwinism"? This is my focal question. To answer it, I survey the attitudes of three groups of people toward the debate in the early decades of the twentieth century: Chinese paleontologists and their general embrace of the anti-Darwinian position, a group of non-specialists (or...

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