Author: Michael Flannery
Book Recommendation: Ashley Montagu Edition of Darwin’s Descent of Man
Removing the extraneous material also has the advantage of highlighting the most glaringly muddle-headed portions of Darwin’s thinking.
Postcard from Borneo: For Wallace, Something Numinous in Nature
The stunning beauty of plants and animals arrayed together were, Alfred Wallace believed, "calculated at once to please and to refine mankind."
Postcard from Borneo: The People
Alfred Wallace would come to see in human beings something special, unique in the natural world, far and away qualitatively different from anything else in the animal kingdom.
Postcard from Borneo: Wallace and the Orangutan
“Naturalists are too apt to imagine, when they cannot discover, a use for everything in nature.”
Postcard from Borneo: A Walk on the Beach in Sabah
I’m now in the Malaysian state of Sabah some miles from the capital Kota Kinabalu, established as Jesselton long after Alfred Russel Wallace had left the region.