In Darwin's Shadow The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace: a Biographical Study on the Psychology of History

Name: In Darwin's Shadow The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace: a Biographical Study on the Psychology of History
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ISBN: 9780195148305

ISBN-10: 0195148304

ISBN-13: 9780195148305

Edition: 2002

Authors: Michael Shermer

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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. Now Michael Shermer rescues Wallace from the shadow of Darwin in this landmark 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…

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List price: $61.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/15/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 9.49" wide x 6.50" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English

Michael Shermer is the director of the Skeptics Society and the host of the Skeptics Lecture Series at the California Institute of Technology. He teaches science, technology, and evolutionary thought in the Cultural Studies Program at Occidental College.



List of Illustrations


Preface: Genesis and Revelation


Prologue: The Psychology of Biography



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


Epilogue. Psychobiography and the Science of History


Notes



Wallace Archival Sources



Wallace's Published Works


Bibliography


Index