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By Chris Martin - September 02, 2002

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Less than a decade after Karl Marx completed his philosophical work, The German Ideology: Part I, Charles Darwin was finally persuaded to publish his biological masterpiece, The Origin of Species. Could these two works be bound intrinsically through Marx's moral account of history? Is it possible that such politically charged material influenced a…

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