Tag: Charles Darwin
Darwin and Wallace Read Malthus Differently, and That Made a Big Difference
No wonder Alfred Russel Wallace called eugenics “the meddlesome interference of an arrogant scientific priestcraft.”
Natural Selection as the Great Designer Substitute
In this way, the majority of evolutionary biologists, insofar as they understand the design inference at all, rationalize it away.
Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life in Science, Rediscovered
Despite the notoriety of Wallace in his own day, he remains a comparatively obscure figure in the history of biology.
The Outsider: Alfred Russel Wallace’s Reputation in the Darwinian Era
Was Alfred Wallace a “crazy” crank? Was he an undisciplined “dilettante” bemused by every fringe belief he encountered?
Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey
Alfred Russel Wallace took a journey Darwin could not follow. He went from natural selection to natural theology.