![]() ![]() Notes Rec R Soc (Lond) 59:126–136Ĭhambers R (1844) Vestiges of the natural history of creation. Columbia University, New Yorkīulmer M (2005) The theory of natural selection of Alfred Russell Wallace FRS. Times Books, New Yorkīrooks JL (1984) Just before the origin: Alfred Russel Wallace’s theory of evolution. J Hist Biol 1:261–324īrackman AC (1980) A delicate arrangement: the strange case of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Atmos Environ 38:6907–6913īeddall BG (1968) Wallace, Darwin and the theory of natural selection: a study in the development of ideas and attitudes. Nature 45:1050īeckmann M, Sheppard SK, Lloyd D (2004) Mass spectrometric monitoring of gas dynamics in peat monoliths: effect of temperature and diurnal cycles on emissions. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.īeccaloni GW, Smith VS (2008) Celebrations for Darwin downplay Wallace’s role. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Eclipsed after his passing in 1913, a gradual realisation of the depth of his mainstream science as well as premature dismissal of some of his more arcane insights continues beyond his centenary year. Honoured late in a long life, Wallace became regarded as one of the greatest scientists in the world, despite his enthusiasms for supernatural phenomena. After proposing the basic principles of speciation and of selection and arriving at a novel and original concept of evolutionary mechanisms, Wallace daringly pursued several non-scientific interests: phrenology, mesmerism, spiritualism, and the great question of whether we are alone in the cosmos. Interaction with the ‘poor farmers’ of South Wales and exposure to their humble conditions inculcated a concern for the deprivation of the underclasses, and were influential in the shaping of his societal concerns and later activism. The depth and reach of his thinking on the diversity and distribution of species outpaced his contemporaries, and he became the undisputed father of biogeography. ![]() Adolescent interest in natural history during apprenticeship to his elder brother, a land-surveyor at the dawn of the railway era in Mid Wales and the Neath valley, blossomed into a lifelong fascination with the living world. His earliest memories take us to Usk in South Wales, where he was born in 1823, and many experiences there are fondly recounted as formative influences. One hundred years on one can propose that his prescience anticipated many modern scientific developments and that despite relative neglect his far-ranging insight continues to inspire even now. Alfred Russel Wallace was a Colossus: courageous, heroic, radical, modest, and above all, a man of insatiable curiosity. ![]()
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