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A (NATURAL) SELECTION OF ONLINE RESOURCES RELATED TO WALLACE
AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES

A. WALLACE RESOURCES

i) Teaching Resources

A nice teaching resource about Wallace's life and work - click here.
Also see: http://science-stories.org/subject/biological-sciences/wallace/ 

ii) Biographies

Wikipedia article about Wallace.
An excellent capsule biography of Wallace by Sean Carroll.
Good biography of Wallace on the Welsh Icons website.

iii) In-depth Information

Wallace Collection

Highlights from The Natural History Museum's (London)
   archive of Wallace letters and other manuscripts.
                       (click on the icon)

 

THE WALLACE PAGE - all you ever wanted to know about Wallace and more! The Wallace equivalent of Darwin Online (below).

iv) Articles

A great article on Wallace's eclipse by Darwin by Jim Endersby.
Excellent account
of the events surrounding the publication of Wallace's 1858 essay on natural selection.
An interesting paper comparing Darwin and Wallace's theories of natural selection.
An article highlighting the current distorted darwinocentric view of the history of evolutionary biology.
A great article about Wallace's neglect by Olivia Judson.
A well written article about Wallace in The New Yorker by Jonathan Rosen.
Wallace gets it right again!
A good article in Smithsonian magazine about the history of the discoveries of evolution and natural selection - click here.
A nice article about Wallace by Sahotra Sarkar published in Resonance in March 2008. Click here to download the pdf.
Fairly good article about Wallace's Spiritualistic beliefs - click here.
A collection of interesting articles by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski.

B. DARWIN

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online - an incredible resource for Darwin material, which also includes quite a number of interesting Wallace items. To see listings of the Wallace items it contains CLICK HERE and then HERE.
The Beagle Project and its excellent Blog - please support this project!!
The Dispersal of Darwin blog has excellent current information about Darwin related events etc and also sometimes good Wallace-related posts.
A critical look at the Darwin legend. CLICK HERE.

 C. OTHER PEOPLE OF NOTE

FRANCIS GALTON: http://galton.org
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY:
The Huxley File 

 D. MISCELLANEOUS

History of Science Blogs (click on icon below)

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith