Links (website), The Open Directory Project (website), The Scout Report (website), GEM (website), WorldCat (OCLC database), and NetFirst (OCLC database). Index to the Internet (website), Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, Biogate (website),, MERLOT (website), The Victorian Web (website), Scott's Botanical Humanities Hub (website), Intute (website), Endeavour, WebbieWorld (website), Natural Selection (website), MedHist (website), The University of Hong Kong (website), Librarian's Center for History and New Media website), BiologyWebDirectory (website), Trove (website), The Gateway to 21st Century Skills (website), The Literary Encyclopedia (website), Humbul Online and/or print venues: New Scientist, ASEAN Review ofīiodiversity and Environmental Conservation (website),, Analysphere (website), Library Journal, Choice, Science, BBC Wildlife Magazine, American Scientist (website), History of Science Society (website), echo (George Mason Univ. Wallace Page has been reviewed, profiled or catalogued in the following With a list of general subjects) or (4) send me an email. Subject Index' (which associates Wallace's published writings Names Index' (which lists the names of people and corporateĮntities found in Wallace's published writings) (3) the 'General Or another connected with Wallace (2) the 'Personal Thesaurus' (which lists places, terms, and titles in one way Searchable names and terms: (1) the 'Wallace Having Trouble Finding Things? If so, try using the following three lists as a means of coming up with Search Site: By Wallace / On Wallace / Entire In 1836, when his parents could no longer support him, he was taken out of school to earn a living. Wallace was born on January 8, 1823, in the Welsh village of Llanbadoc into an impoverished middle-class family. Website examining scientific applications of the "final Alfred Russel Wallace’s humble origins contrast sharply with Charles Darwin’s privileged background. Once and Future Wallace, or, Evolutionary Theorizing in the Monographic study of Wallace's adoption of spiritualism, and its Wallace: Evolution of an Evolutionist (my To expect the world to receiveĪ new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to lookįor one of those miracles which do not occur." (fromĪn interview of Wallace published posthumously in 1913) Is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and everyįresh truth is received unwillingly. "Whenever we depart from the great principles of truth and honesty, of equal freedom and justice to all men whether in our relations with other states, or in our dealings with our fellow-men, the evil that we do surely comes back to us, and the suffering and poverty and crime of which we are the direct or indirect causes, help to impoverish ourselves." (from Bad Times, 1885) Information on one of the most fascinating figures in the history (1823-1913)! The links to the left connect you to various kinds of Shermer shows that the same iconoclastic outlook that led him to overturn scientific orthodoxy as he worked in relative isolation also led him to embrace irrational beliefs, and thus tarnish his reputation.Welcome to Version Two of The Alfred Russel Wallace Page, a website dedicated to celebrating the life and work of the English naturalist, evolutionist, and social critic Alfred Russel Wallace Smiths Note: Wallaces portion of the entry 'Distribution' appearing in Volume Seven of the ninth edition of The Encyclopædia Britannica in 1878 (W. Wallace : Russel Wallace : Alfred Russell Wallace (sic)Distribution (S286: 1878) Editor Charles H. Wallace's self-trained intellect, while powerful, also embraced surprisingly naive ideas, such as his deep interest in the study of spiritual manifestations and seances. Alfred Russel Wallace : Alfred Wallace : A. Here, too, is his supple and forceful intelligence at work, grappling with such arcane problems as the bright colouration of caterpillars, or shaping his 1858 paper on natural selection that prompted Darwin to publish (with Wallace) the first paper outlining the theory of evolution. Here we see Wallace as perhaps the greatest naturalist of his age-spending years in remote jungles, collecting astounding quantities of specimens, writing thoughtfully and with bemused detachment at his reception in places where no white man had ever gone. Michael Shermer rescues Wallace from the shadow of Darwin in this biography. Virtually unknown today, Alfred Russel Wallace was the co-discoverer of natural selection with Charles Darwin and an eminent scientist who stood out among his Victorian peers as a man of formidable mind and equally outsized personality.
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