明治期知識人層における生物進化論の流行再考 : 「人獣同祖説」のインパクトをめぐって
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The fact that the evolutionary theory won the popularity in intellectuals of the Meiji era has been indicated by many preceding studies on the reception of the evolutionary theory in Japan. According to these studies, Japanese intellectuals in the Meiji era reacted strongly the thesis of "the survival of the fittest" or "evolution" in evolutionary theory, and they often utilized these theses to justify ideologies that each believed. On the other hand, on a thesis of evolutionary theory that the extreme ancestors of human beings are protists, preceding studies have advocated that it gave little influence to Japanese people in the Meiji era. The purpose of this paper is to elucidate that this thesis of evolutionary theory also gave a big impact to Japanese and it worked as a big facter of the evolutionary theory's vogue in intellectuals of the Meiji era, through surveying the reactions of them to the evolutionary theory.
- 2003-03-25