Bay Area, Tracy, CA USA Uwe Hossfeld Friedrich Schiller University. Authors: Ulrich Kutschera I-Cultiver, Inc., S.F. Read selected individual chapters of Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life for free by clicking on the links below, or purchase a copy of the book. From these he published several scientific articles, two books (Palm Trees of the Amazon and Their Uses and Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823- 1913): The man in the shadow of Charles Darwin. This was Wallace’s ultimate heresy, a heresy that exposed the metaphysical underpinnings of the emerging Darwinian paradigm. Wallace’s devotion to discovering the truths of nature brought him through a lifetime of research to see genuine design in the natural world. Flannery is that Wallace, in developing his unique brand of evolution, presaged modern intelligent design theory. Details Select delivery location Only 1 left in stock - order soon. Details Or fastest delivery January 20 - 24. Flannery: 9780979014192: : Books Books Biographies & Memoirs Professionals & Academics Buy new: 17.30 FREE delivery January 25 - 30. Flannery of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.The provocative thesis of Prof. Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life: Michael A. Perhaps Martin Fichman’s phrase hits closest and most persistently to the truth - “ the elusive Victorian.”Ĭan the real Wallace be found? If so, what might we learn in that rediscovery? Explore the answers to these questions and more in Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life, the acclaimed new biography of Wallace by Professor Michael A. Some regard him as a heretic, others as merely a misguided scientist-turned-spiritualist, still others as a prescient figure anticipating the modern Gaia hypothesis. This shouldn’t suggest unanimity of opinion, however. While the complaint still has a ring of truth, a decade of recent interest in Wallace has done much to bring him back from history’s crypt of forgotten figures. Remembered only for prompting Darwin to write On the Origin of Species in 1859 by sending Darwin his own letter proposing a theory of natural selection, Wallace was rightly dubbed by one biographer “the forgotten naturalist.” Alfred Russel Wallace is best known as the codiscoverer, with Charles Darwin, of natural selection, but he was also historys foremost tropical naturalist and. For years Alfred Russel Wallace was little more than an obscure adjunct to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
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