David Foster Wallace and Lovelessness

David Foster

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Wallace and Darwin

term the common ancestral state of members of a group); morphology (arguing that the “natural inference of an unprejudiced person” is to recognize that homologous structures “are true records of the progress of the organic world); domestication (maintaining that divergent animal breeds constitute evidence of mutability, and offering thought experiments to show that there is no good reason to th...

Wallace, Darwin and Ternate 1858.

Recent debates on the mailing date of Alfred Russel Wallace's 'Ternate essay' to Charles Darwin in the spring of 1858 have ignored certain details that, once taken into account, alter the matter considerably. Here, a closer look is taken at the critical question of whether Wallace's manuscript-accompanying letter represented a reply to the Darwin letter that arrived in Ternate on 9 March; it is...

William Wallace (1791-1837).

Differences between Darwin and Wallace

The fact is well known that the theory of eyolution as developed by Darwin was discovered independently and almost simultaneously by Alfred Russel Wallace. The latter, in the course of his newly issued biography,· compbins that his differences of opinion with Darwin are so construed as to imply that he has now abandoned the most essential parts of the theory of natural selection. This, he says,...