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Royal Entomological Society
~ Darwin-Wallace Celebratory Meeting ~
Insect evolution below the species level: ecological specialisation and the origin of species
Registration form and full programme can be found at the following link http://www.royensoc.co.uk/meetings.shtml
Wednesday, 22nd April 2009
The Conference Hall, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, UK
From The Times
February 12, 2009
A forgotten hero: Darwin's co-discoverer
A little-known naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, also proposed the theory of natural selection - and this spurred Charles Darwin on to publish his great book.
Anjana Ahuja
At last someone has made a very nice video (admittedly a short one) which acknowledges the importance of Alfred Russel Wallace in the discovery of evolution by natural selection. Watch it here: http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=100542500&m=100542542
El Mercurio, the leading newspaper in Chile, South America, today published a nicely illustrated article about Wallace by Richard Garcia. It is entitled "El hombre que pudo ser Charles Darwin" and it can be seen here:- http://wallacefund.myspecies.info/sites/wallacefund.myspecies.info/files...
The Swiss radio station DRS 2 has just made a recording of a recent radio programme about Wallace and his discovery of natural selection available on their Website. It includes a long interview with me and a short one with Wallace's grandson Richard. If you understand German and would like to hear it then click on the following url:- http://www.drs2.ch/www/de/drs2/sendungen/hoerpunkt-charles-darwin-und-die-evolution/108265.bt10069364.html
It is now possible to keep up with all of the latest Wallace related happenings on the micro-blogging website Twitter . The ARWallace Twitter account is dynamically updated from the 'News and Views' blog on this site, so for those of you who use Twitter this is a great way to be kept informed of news and site updates.
A colleague brought the following detailed review of Roy Davies' book The Darwin Conspiracy (http://www.darwin-conspiracy.co.uk) to my attention: http://www.answersingenesis.org/contents/379/arj/v2/No_Darwin_Conspiracy.pdf
Curiously it was written by a creationist, who perhaps surprisingly, argues that Darwin was not a plagiarist as Davies claims!
