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Darwin and Dostoyevsky: twins.
late in the nineteenth century, charles Darwin (1809–1882) and Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) published accounts of their investigation of humankind. Darwin did so in 1871 in his book The Descent of Man, Dostoyevsky in 1880 in the parable of The Grand Inquisitor in his book The Brothers Karamazov. last year we celebrated Darwin’s anniversary; for biologists, 2010—the 130th anniversary of Dostoy...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Quaestio Rossica
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2311-911X
DOI: 10.15826/qr.2015.2.108