Similarities and Varieties: A Brief Sketch on the Reception of Darwinism and Sociobiology in Japan

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 341-357

  Sakura, Osamu ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cultural studies; Darwinism; Evolutionary biology in Japan; Sociobiology; Theory reception

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347351194     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006504623820     Document Type: Article

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