Remembering Wallace
Jerry Coyne has a guest post by Andrew Berry recognizing the history of Alfred Russel Wallace, co-innovator of the concept of natural selection: “A guest pos...
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Shipwrecked Wallace
Jerry Coyne has a guest post today by Andrew Berry, who recounts an episode in the early life of Alfred Russel Wallace: “The most poignant episode in all of ...
"Where did it go wrong for Wallace's reputation?"
The BBC has an article by Kevin Leonard, pondering “Why does Charles Darwin eclipse Alfred Russel Wallace?” They both thought of the idea of natural selectio...
Quote: Wallace on the distribution of beauty
In response to Darwin’s claim that the British aristocracy has been made more beautiful “from pick of women”, Alfred Russel Wallace replied (in a letter to D...
Cabinet of curiosities
Six hundred dollars was more money twenty years ago, but it was still pretty cheap for a beautiful rosewood specimen cabinet, I’d have thought. It was full o...