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The evidence is the evidence even if you don't like it and saying “specious” doesn't change it.

But as to these nations “well versed in Natural Selection”, whom might they be?
I understand many people had some notion of evolving over time or something like it but “Natural Selection”?

"The evidence is the evidence even if you don't like it"

I do not deny that Socialists, Communists and Tyrants may have credited Darwin, but that does not imply that he in any reciprocated. My point is that Darwin, although iconic for his theory on evolution, invented nothing. Had Darwin not connected the dots someone sooner or later else would have. The criticism of Charles Darwin is undeserved.

"But as to these nations “well versed in Natural Selection”, whom might they be?"

Within most countries were a class of people who declared themselves superior to the commoner by virtue of their superior breeding and lineage. Amongst nations there existed racially based theories of superiority by virtue of their superior genetic stock and the natural selection of the generations of wars and competition between the nations and peoples. Articulating these common practices to the competition between species, in the environment of church-state authority structures took more balls than brains.

The evidence is the evidence even if you don't like it and saying “specious” doesn't change it.

So what IS that evidence, count-your-change? Let's focus specifically on the title claim that Mao was influenced particularly by Darwin. The article doesn't offer a shred of specific evidence. I've just searched through all of Mao's works available online and in English (see my preceding message) and among thousands and thousands of pages found next to nothing about Darwin.

So what IS "the evidence"?