The Alfred Russel Wallace Website

Discover Magazine (blog)
Ebooks: More Boon to Literacy Than Threat to Democracy
Discover Magazine (blog)
Charles Darwin, for instance, rushed out The Origin of Species in 1859 in a fit of desperation, his hand forced by Alfred Russel Wallace's near-simultaneous discovery of evolution. Darwin was not terribly happy with how the book turned out, ...

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Alfred Russel Wallace, Iconoclast Extraordinaire
Discovery Institute
That's one reason ENV keeps coming back to Alfred Russel Wallace, evolutionary theory's co-founder. Apart from the inherent historical and scientific fascination of his life and ideas, well and compactly portrayed in John West's new documentary short ...

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One Last Word on Alfred Russel Wallace, Intelligent Design -- and ...
Discovery Institute
Concluding his contributions to our debate on Alfred Russel Wallace and intelligent design ("Hyper-evolutionism, Scientism, and the Mythical Wallace of Michael Shermer"), Michael Flannery objects to my use of the term "Intelligent Design creationist" ...

Cross-curricular resources: Darwin Day
Times Educational Supplement
What is less well known is that this elegant theory was also conceived by another, more obscure scientist: Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913). Wallace's role is often played down or ignored altogether. Yet a hardcore group is convinced that herein lies ...

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Michael Shermer Concedes! Wallace Was an ID Advocate!
Discovery Institute
I thought I would add a concluding reflection on my debate with Michael Shermer ("Resolved: If He Were Alive Today, Alfred Russel Wallace Would Be an Intelligent Design Advocate"). Shermer's reply to my opener seems a stunning concession of the main ...

Hyper-evolutionism, Scientism, and the Mythical Wallace of Michael Shermer
Discovery Institute
It would seem appropriate to provide some definition of intelligent design if, to paraphrase Michael Shermer, associating Alfred Russel Wallace with ID is a perilous misjudgment. Shermer's term "Intelligent Design creationism" signals his own ...

Cabinet of Wonders: Personal Collection of Alfred Russel Wallace
LiveScience.com
... a program manager from the National Science Foundation, when given the opportunity to see, smell, and even touch the very specimens that British naturalist and field biologist Alfred Russel Wallace collected nearly two centuries ago.

Bilbao celebrará el Día de Darwin el 14 de febrero
El Correo Digital (Vizcaya)
Bilbao volverá a celebrar este año el nacimiento de Charles Darwin, codescubridor de la teoría de la evolución junto a Alfred Russel Wallace. La Biblioteca de Bidebarrieta acogerá el 14 de febrero, a partir de las 19 horas, sendas conferencias de José ...

Naturalist Wallace's Sarawak experience retraced
Malaysia Star
KUCHING: Most Sarawakians do not realise that in Kuching they are basically following the footsteps of Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace is one of the two founders of the theory of evolution by natural selection. The other one being Charles Darwin.

The Natural and the Supernatural: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Nature of Science
Discovery Institute
Michael Flannery's assessment of Alfred Russel Wallace as a prescient scientist who anticipated modern Intelligent Design theory is premised on the belief that modern evolutionary biologists have failed to explain the myriad abilities of the human mind ...

Wallace Would Be an Intelligent Design Advocate -- and a Prescient Figure in ...
Discovery Institute
This argument is advanced in several essays appearing in Natural Selection and Beyond: The Intellectual Legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace (2009). My primary objection to this position is that it simply ignores (or worse, distorts) the last 44 years of ...

Applause: Community awards Jan. 23, 2012
Sacramento Bee
Details: He joins the ranks of such scientists as Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Fellows are nominated for making significant contributions to insect science. Leal is a pioneer in the field of insect communication. Know someone who should be ...

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Resolved: If He Were Alive Today, Alfred Russel Wallace Would Be an ...
Discovery Institute
If he were alive today, would evolutionary theory's co-discoverer, Alfred Russel Wallace, be an intelligent design advocate? Though the resolution is phrased as an answer in the affirmative, we give the right of an opening statement to Michael Shermer.

Alfred Russel Wallace Was a Hyper-Evolutionist, Not an Intelligent Design ...
Discovery Institute
His doctoral dissertation in the history of science was on Alfred Russel Wallace, and his full-length biography, In Darwin's Shadow, was published in 2002 by Oxford University Press. Debating whether or not Alfred Russel Wallace was a creationist ...
Evolution theory co-founder a 'heretic'OneNewsNow

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Darwin Plagiarism Charge Resurfaces in Time for Alfred Russel Wallace ...
Discovery Institute
You'll be hearing more about Alfred Russel Wallace in coming days. A new documentary short by John West, Darwin's Heretic, debuts online this Saturday, January 21. And next week here at ENV, Wallace biographer (In Darwin's Shadow) and Skeptic magazine ...

Mongabay.com
New book series hopes to inspire research in world's 'hottest biodiversity ...
Mongabay.com
The famous British naturalist and evolutionist Alfred Russel Wallace (Wallacea was named after him) was so fascinated by the deep differences in the fauna of this territory compared to Greater Sunda Islands, that he produced the world's first ...

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(R)evolutie
Trouw
Alfred Russel Wallace kwam op hetzelfde idee als Darwin: dat natuurlijke selectie de motor is achter soortvorming en dat daar geen schepper voor nodig is. Maar Darwin wist in 1859 met zijn 'On the Origin of Species' de wetenschappelijke en lekenwereld ...

Online Premiere of Darwin's Heretic: Saturday, January 21, 2012
Discovery Institute
Learn about Alfred Russel Wallace's fascinating journey of discovery starting Saturday, January 21, with the online premiere of the new documentary short Darwin's Heretic at www.darwinsheretic.com. Everyone seems to know that Wallace co-discovered the ...

The Multiple Miracles of Bird Feathers
Audubon Magazine
Alfred Russel Wallace called feathers “the masterpiece of nature . . . the perfectest venture imaginable,” and Charles Darwin devoted nearly four chapters to them in Descent of Man, his second great treatise on evolution. But the human fascination with ...

Waarom de dominee tóch gelijk heeft
Katholiek Nieuwsblad
Katholiek Nieuwsblad had vorig jaar de primeur om voor het eerst in het Nederlands het interview uit 1910 aan te bieden, waarin Alfred Russel Wallace avant la lettre voor ID kiest. Wallace is de eigenlijke ontdekker van natuurlijke selectie en muntte ...