In Darwin's shadow: the life and science of Alfred Russel Wallace : a biographical study on the psychology 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 th...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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, collecting astounding quantities of specimens, writing thoughtfully and with bemused detachment at his reception in places where no white man had ever gone. 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. Shermer also shows that 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. 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. As author of Why people believe weird things and founding publisher of "Skeptic" magazine, Shermer turns his judgment and analysis to Wallace's life and his contradictory beliefs, aiming to restore a leading figure in the rise of modern science to his rightful place. |
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IN
DARWIN'S
SHADOW
THE LIFE AND SCIENCE OF
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
A Biographical Study
on the
Psychology of History
Michael Shermer
OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
Preface: Genesis and Revelation xiii
Prologue The Psychology of Biography 3
1 Uncertain Beginnings 33
2 The Evolution of a Naturalist 56
3 Breaching the Walls of the Species Citadel 77
4 The Mystery of Mysteries Solved 108
5 A Gentlemanly Arrangement 128
6 Scientific Heresy and Ideological Murder 151
7 A Scientist Among the Spiritualists 175
8 Heretical Thoughts 202
9 Heretical Culture 225
10 Heretic Personality 250
11 The Last Great Victorian 271
12 The Life of Wallace and the Nature of History 298
Epilogue Psychobiography and the Science of History 311
Notes 329
Appendix I: Wallace Archival Sources 343
Appendix II: Wallace's Published Works 351
Bibliography 391
Index 403
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