Writing tagged: ‘alfred russel wallace’
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Darwin and Wallace: the lost photograph
I’d heard the legend, of course. Every Darwin groupie has. The missing photograph of the two independent discoverers of evolution by means of Natural Selection, Darwin and Wallace, standing side-by-side. Together. In the same frame.
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Book review: ‘Alfred Russel Wallace: a Life’ by Peter Raby
A very readable biography about the ‘co-discoverer’ of Natural Selection—the man who nearly scooped Darwin.
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01-Jul-1858: Darwin goes public
Charles Darwin finally went public with his theory of evolution by means of Natural Selection on 1st July 1858.
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Wallace memorials
Some feedback to an earlier post.
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Wallace podcast
BBC Radio 4: GreatLives – Alfred Russel Wallace.
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18-Jun-1858: Wallace’s bombshell
On 18th June 1858, Charles Darwin received the biggest bombshell of his scientific career: it looked as if he was about to be scooped!
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The Wallace Collection
The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection goes online.
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Three encounters with orang-utans
Charles Darwin in 1838, Alfred Russel Wallace in 1855, and my partner’s nephew in 2006.