Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (501 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0979014190 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 150 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Flannery has published extensively in medical history and bioethics, winning the prestigious Edward Kremers Award in 2001 for distinguished writing by an American from the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy and the 2006 Publications Award of the Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences.. Flannery is Professor and Associate Director for Historical Collections at the Lister Hill Library of the Health
"Fascinating History that Has Been Suppressed" according to Erasmus. Fascinating, short biography of the co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace. It turns out that Wallace--unlike his colleague Charles Darwin--believed in intelligent design. He started out by observing the features of human beings that didn't seem producible by unguided natural selection. But by the end of his life, he was finding detectable design throughout the universe and biological life, including in butterflies, bird's wings, the cell, and the origin of the first life. For those who are open to new . A measured assessment of Wallace's contribution to the theory of evolution Dr. H. A. Jones Alfred Russel Wallace: a rediscovered life by Michael A. Flannery, Discovery Institute Press, Seattle, Washington, 2011, 166 ff.Michael Flannery is Professor and Associate Director for Historical Collections at the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama in the U.S.A. He has written here a most readable and accessible introduction to the life and work of a great naturalist , whose work has tended to be overlooked by the general public in favour of Wallace’s contemporary, friend and rival, Charles. E. Aagaard said A GREAT book about a wonderful man.. Discover Alfred Russel Wallace!! Visionary biologist and thinker only now being vindicated. Much of what we "learned" about him is belied by the actual history of his life, by his letters, and by the testimony of his contemporaries. This is a wonderful corrective to the stuff I was taught, and it's a pleasure to read about a guy who wasn't rich or acclaimed, but worked so hard and long on his craft and on the scientific aspects of what he was collecting and observing.If you're interested in biology, or even just human nature, you're going to enjoy
Prof. About the AuthorMichael A. Flannery has published extensively in medical history and bioethics, winning the prestigious Edward Kremers Award in 2001 for distinguished writing by an American from the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy and the 2006 Publications Award of the Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences.. Flannery is Professor and Associate Director for Historical Collections at the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Perhaps Martin Fichman’s phrase hits closest and most persistently to the truth—“the elusive Victorian.” Can the real Wallace be found? If so, what might we learn in that rediscovery? The provocative thesis of this new biography is that Wallace, in developing his unique brand of evolution, presaged modern intelligent design theory. Wallace’s devotion to discovering the truths of nature brought him through a lifetime of research to see genuine design in the natural world. This was Wallace’s ultimate heresy, a heresy that exposed the metaphysical underpinnings of the emerging Darwinian paradigm.. For years Alfred Russel Wallace was little more than an obscure adjunct to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. This shouldn’t suggest unanimity of opinion, however.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. Remembered only for prompting Darwin to write On the Origin of Species in 1859 by writing his own letter proposing a theory of natural selection, Wallace was rightly dubbed by one biographer “the forgotten naturalist.” In 1998 Sahotra Sarkar bemoaned Wallace’s “lapse into obscurity,” noting that "at least in the 19th century literature, the theory of evolution was usually referred to as ‘the Darwin and Wallace theory’. In the