Author: Michael Flannery
An Anthropologist Looks at Wallace and Darwin
Kathleen Bolling Lowrey examines the intellectual supports of modern evolutionary biology and singles out the weakest among them.
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.”