Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is Peter Kropotkin’s influential work arguing that cooperation and mutual support are key drivers of evolution and social organization, challenging the notion that competition alone shapes species.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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non-fiction book → scientific work → work of political philosophy → |
| argumentType |
comparative
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empirical → historical → |
| author |
Peter Kropotkin
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Peter Kropotkin →
surface form: "Pyotr Kropotkin"
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| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom → |
| field |
evolutionary biology
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political philosophy → social theory → |
| firstPublicationForm | journal articles → |
| firstPublishedIn | The Nineteenth Century → |
| genre |
anarchist theory
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evolutionary theory → political theory → popular science → |
| hasPart |
chapters on mutual aid among animals
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chapters on mutual aid among so-called savages → chapters on mutual aid in medieval cities → chapters on mutual aid in modern societies → |
| influenced |
anarchist political thought
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cooperation studies in biology → mutual aid movements → |
| influencedBy |
Charles Darwin
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Kropotkin’s field observations in Siberia → Russian naturalist tradition → |
| language | English → |
| mainThesis |
competition alone does not explain evolutionary and social development
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cooperation and mutual support are key factors in evolution → |
| notableFor |
early articulation of cooperation as an evolutionary advantage
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systematic critique of competitive interpretations of Darwinism → |
| opposes | social Darwinist emphasis on ruthless competition → |
| originalLanguage | English → |
| philosophicalStance | anarchist communism → |
| publicationYear | 1902 → |
| publisher | William Heinemann → |
| structure | series of essays → |
| subject |
anarchism
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cooperation → ethology → evolution → mutual aid → Social Darwinism →
surface form: "social Darwinism"
social organization → sociobiology → |
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subject surface form: "Pyotr Kropotkin"