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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Scores of societies would have come to life to debate and to solve each of the partial problems involved in the theory…”

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Scores of societies would have come to life to debate and to solve each of the partial problems involved in the theory, and in ten years the theory would have been verified; all those factors of evolution which only now begin to receive due attention would have appeared in their full light.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin believes that collaborative efforts would have accelerated the verification of evolutionary theory.

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