In Darwin's shadow : the life and science of Alfred Russel Wallace : a biographical study on the psychology of history
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Michael Shermer
- ناشر : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2002
- شابک / ISBN : 9780195148305
Description
Uncertain beginnings -- The evolution of a naturalist -- Breaching the walls of the species citadel -- The mystery of mysteries solved -- A gentlemanly arrangement -- Scientific heresy and ideological murder -- A scientist among the spiritualists -- Heretical thoughts -- Heretical culture -- Heretic personality -- The last great Victorian -- The life of Wallace and the nature of history.
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. Michael Shermer rescues Wallace from the shadow of Darwin in this biography. Here we see Wallace as perhaps the greatest naturalist of his age-spending years in remote jungles
