How Charles Darwin received Wallace's Ternate paper 15 days earlier than he claimed: a comment on van Wyhe and Rookmaaker (2012)
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0024-4066
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01858.x