Summary: Alfred Russel Wallace (1823−1913) is best known for his independent formulation of the principle of natural selection. In this work I first review my understanding of Wallace’s intellectual development on this subject, including the notion that he had no model for the evolution of higher consciousness as of his first treatment of ...

to understand the origins of humankind, it was necessary to supplement the theory of evolution by natural selection with laws regulating, on the one hand the role of the spirits, and on the other hand the action of the surrounding world (what later was called the

Flannery’s riveting tale of rediscovery provides convincing new evidence that Alfred Russel Wallace—the acknowledged co-dis-coverer of evolutionary theory—supported an argument from design for all forms of life which, in many ways, anticipated modern intelligent design thinking.

Wallace has frequently been distinguished from Darwin on the basis of the former’s greater emphasis on environmental causalities in evolution (for example, on the effects of climate more than behavior), but such thinking significantly oversimplifies the differences between the two men’s approaches.

He was an explorer, proli c collector, co-discoverer of key fi laws of ecology and evolution such as the principle of natural selection (and perhaps others as we will see below), and the true...

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was a largely self-educated British naturalist, who co- published the theory of evolution by natural selection with Charles Darwin in 1858, fifteen months before Darwin‘s book Origin of species was released.

In his monograph Darwinism (1889), and in subsequent publications, Wallace extended the contents of Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859) into the Neo-Darwinian theory of biological evolution, with reference to the work of August Weismann (1834–1914).

Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace independently discovered natural selection, and a set of common experiences surely contributed to that event. But, there were also major differences in their life-experience

Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist renowned for co-developing the theory of evolution alongside Charles Darwin—and for mapping out the biodiversity of the Indonesian Archipelago....

Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life is a new biography of the co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection and one of the nineteenth century’s most intriguing scientists. Its provocative thesis is that Wallace, in developing his unique brand of evolution, presaged modern intelligent design theory.

Summary: Alfred Russel Wallace (1823−1913) is best known for his work on the theory of evolution by natural selection, and studies on biogeography. This fame has not, however, prevented appraisals of his work that sometimes depart from …

theory of evolution for man's mind; the contemporary debate concerning man's mind centred on physiological psychology and the philosophical mind-body problem.6 Yet Wallace's ideas reveal a community of issues between evolution and psychology. Indeed, his theory of the evolution of man cannot be understood apart from his theory of psychology ...

It is widely known that the Alfred Russel Wallace's theory of evolution by natural selection came to him "in a sudden flash of insight" during a feverish fit (probably malaria)...

lfred Russel Wallace, whose contri-butions to science we celebrate this year, the 100th anniversary of his death, is probably best known for his role in articulating evolution by natural selection with Charles Darwin in the mid-19th century. But important as that was, it was his unique fi eld-oriented perspective that gave birth to a

Here, I outline the contribution of Alfred Russel Wallace and that of other Darwinians to the understanding of the nature of species, and their evolution. In particular, I summarise their views about the importance of “reproductive isolation.” Since 1995, I have gradually been collecting information on how early Darwinians viewed species.

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), British natu ralist, evolutionist, geographer, anthropologist, and reformer, was a central figure in the emergence of the theory of evolution by natural selection, an important contributor to several other natural his tory and social science subjects, and an influential social critic.

Alfred Rüssel Wallace and the Discovery of Natural Selection* H. LEWIS McKINNEY** VARIOUS suggestions have been made regarding the path which led Alfred Russel Wallace, independently of Charles Darwin, to discover natural selection in 1858. Philip Darlington has observed that Wallace was led to his momentous discovery by

Today the fame of Alfred Russell Wallace is as the independent codiscoverer with Charles Darwin of the origin of species by natural selection. Although they were on very amiable terms all their lives, 11 years after announcing their discovery, Wallace and Darwin had a major disagreement on the evolution of human cognition. The author considers

Conventional wisdom has had it that the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and his colleague Henry Walter Bates journeyed to the Amazon in 1848 with two intentions in mind: to collect natural history specimens, and to consider evidential materials that might reveal the causal basis of organic evolution.

Wallace made his greatest contribution to biology in his principle of natural selection as the real key to the method of evolution. He later came to re-ject the whole Lamarckian element in Darwin's views. In the 1870's Wallace wrote two essays on natural selection which contended that man was not produced by the unaided operation of natural ...