Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), co-discoverer of natural selection, was second only to Charles Darwin as the 19th century\'s most noted English naturalist.
This book contains an abridgment of Alfred Russel Wallace\'s The World of Life and Reverend John Magens Mello\'s essay, The Mystery of Life and Mind..
This book is for anyone seeking to understand the historical and philosophical roots of a controversy that still rages today.
Though based upon very different formulations of natural selection, the Wallace/Darwin dispute as presented by Flannery shows a metaphysical clash of worldviews coextensive with modern evolutionary theory itself-design and purpose versus randomness and chance.
This is juxtaposed by his sympathetic account of what he calls Wallace\'s Intelligent evolution, a thoroughly teleological alternative to Darwin\'s stochastic processes.
Flannery exposes Charles Darwin\'s now-famous theory of evolution as little more than a naturalistic cover for an extreme philosophical materialism borrowed as a youth from Edinburgh radicals.
Flannery places Wallace in historical context and includes the very latest historiography relating to both Darwin and Wallace in his detailed introduction.
More than just a reprinting of a near-forgotten work, Michael A.
In this volume Wallace is finally allowed to speak in his own defense through his grand evolutionary synthesis The World of Life published over a century ago in 1910.
Yet his belief in spiritualism caused him to be ridiculed and dismissed by many, leaving him a comparatively obscure and misunderstood figure.
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), co-discoverer of natural selection, was second only to Charles Darwin as the 19th century\'s most noted English naturalist
