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Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 27. When Wallace Broke With Darwin., Charles H. Smith
Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 27. When Wallace Broke With Darwin., Charles H. Smith
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The year 1866 was the first year Alfred Russel Wallace showed definite signs of breaking with Darwin over the limits of natural selection. Attention is drawn to a July 1866 exchange of letters between the two, and how this foreshadowed what followed.
Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 25. Wallace And The 'Physical Environment'., Charles H. Smith
Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 25. Wallace And The 'Physical Environment'., Charles H. Smith
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Alfred Russel Wallace’s natural selection essay of 1858 has been held to frame a greater role for the physical environment in forcing selection regimes than we find in Darwin’s writings, but here that verdict is challenged by a re-examination of both the essay itself, and period usage of the term ‘physical.’