Natural Selection and Beyond: The Intellectual Legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace
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These quotations indicate at once the two driving passions in the life of Alfred Russel Wallace-his fascination with the natural world, and his deep sense of social justice. They ramified into his many works and achivements, and made him, by the end of his life, as famous in Victorian society as the now iconic Charles Darwin.Natural Selection and Beyond is a remarkable collection of essays, most of them specially commissioned, which consider in depth aspects of the life and work of the co-discoverer of natural selection. Introduced by Peter Bowler and Lord Cranbrook, and with contributions from twenty-three other distinguished scholars and scientists, the many facets of Wallace's life and thought are at last brought together to produce an engaging and scholarly assessment of Wallace as scientist and socialist, as an astonishingly prolific collector and naturalist, and an influential thinker who questioned the materialism and capitalism that dominated Victorian society.
Foreword Peter Bowler viiPreface Earl of Cranbrook ixList of Figures xxList of Plates xxiiList of Tables xxiiiList of Contributors xxivIntroduction 11 Homes Sweet Homes: A Biographical Tour of Wallace's Many Places of Residence George Beccaloni 7Part I In the World of Nature2 "Ardent Beetle-Hunters": Natural History, Collecting, and the Theory of Evolution Andrew Berry 473 Theory and Practice in the Field: Wallace's Work in Natural History (1844-1858) Melinda Bonnie Fagan 664 Wallace's Annotated Copy of the Darwin-Wallace Paper on Natural Selection George Beccaloni 915 Wallace and the Species Concept of the Early Darwinians James Mallet 1026 Direct Selection for Reproductive Isolation: The Wallace Effect and Reinforcement Norman A. Johnson 1147 The Colours of Animals: From Wallace to the Present Day. I. Cryptic Coloration Tim Caro Sami Merilaita Martin Stevens 1258 The Colours of Animals: From Wallace to the Present Day. II. Conspicuous Coloration. Tim Caro Geoffrey Hill Leena Lindström Michael Speed 1449 Alfred Russel Wallace, Biogeographer Bernard Michaux 16610 Wallace and the Great Ice Age Keith Tinkler 18611 Wallace, Conservation, and Sustainable Development Sandra Knapp 201Part II In the World of Man, and Worlds Beyond12 The "Finest Butterfly in the World?": Wallace and His Literary Legacy Peter Raby 22313 Wallace and Owenism Gregory Claeys 23514 Wallace, Women, and Eugenics Diane B. Paul 26315 Out of "the Limbo of 'Unpractical Politics'": The Origins and Essence of Wallace's Advocacy of Land Nationalization David A. Stack 27916 Alfred Russel Wallace and Anti-Vaccinationism in the Late Victorian Cultural Context, 1870-1907 Martin Fichman 30517 The Universe and Alfred Russel Wallace Steven J. Dick 32018 Wallace's Unfinished Business Charles H. Smith 34119 Wallace in Wonderland James Moore 35320 Wallace's Dilemmas: The Laws of Nature and the Human Spirit Ted Benton 36821 Wallace, Spiritualism, and Beyond: "Change," or "No Change"? Charles H. Smith 391References Cited 425Works by Alfred Russel Wallace 425Works by Other Authors 433Index 467
