TAILIEUCHUNG - THE LIFE AND SCIENCE OF ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

The assignment sounded forbidding. The final project for the colloquial sem inar in philosophy appeared in my hands three weeks before the end of the spring semester, 1973. Though it was straightforward enough, selecting the dozen most influential individuals in history and defending the choices was a task this college sophomore found at once both onerous and intriguing. The professor did not really expect college students to come up with twelve names and defend them, did he? He did. | IN Darwin s Shadow THE LIFE AND SCIENCE OF ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE A Biographical Study on the Psychology of History Michael Shermer owro UNIVERSITY PRESS 2002 O1 UNIVERSITY PRESS Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Sao Paulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto and an associated company in Berlin Copyright 2002 by Michael Shermer Author contact Skeptic Magazine . Box 338 Altadena California 91001 626 794-3119 skepticmag@ Published by Oxford University Press Inc. 198 Madison Avenue New York New York 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shermer Michael. In Darwin s shadow the life and science of Alfred Russel Wallace Michael Shermer. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-19-514830-4 1. Wallace Alfred Russel 1823-1913. 2. Naturalist England Biography. 3. Natural selection. I. Title. 2002 508 .092 dc21 B 2001055721 All illustrations unless otherwise noted were prepared by Pat Linse. 135798642 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper To Kimberly With unencumbered love and unmitigated gratitude for fifteen years plus one honeymoon spent in fifteen archives reading through 1 500 letters 750 articles and 22 books her deep insight into the complex psychology of the human condition provided both historical and personal enlightenment. She has made me .

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