Darwin Vindicated in Regards to Co-Writer Wallace!

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It seems that some four decades of accusations against Darwin in regards to his deceiving his fellow naturalist, Wallace, were unfounded. (The suspicions had to do with the joint paper that Wallace and Darwin wrote and presented on July 1, 1858, a thrilling piece entitled: On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection). Story from here:

For the past four decades, Charles Darwin had been accused of keeping the essay of fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace for a fortnight, thereby enabling him to revise elements of his theory of evolution, before jointly announcing the theory of evolution by natural selection in July 1858. Just recently, two researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS), supported by a private donation, reconstructed the route taken by Wallace's letter to Darwin from Ternate and provided evidence that Wallace sent the letter a month later than historians had always assumed, thus clearing Darwin of the accusations against him.

I'm so relieved! Now I can read "On the Origin of Species" with a clear conscience

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I have a real problem with most 'revisionist' historians. Too many of them are out for self-publicity and ideological agendae rather than attempting to insure historical accuracy. It's good to see this one quashed.

 

[Handley_Page]

As far as I know, we don't have too much bother from the non-Evolutionary types; thank the Lord.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Tell that to Richard Dawkins. He seems to find one under every bush.