An excellent feature article about Wallace has just been published in the December issue of National Geographic Magazine, which is now for sale in the shops (in the USA at least). "The Man Who Wasn't Darwin" has text by the acclaimed science writer David Quammen and images by Robert Clark, a much published National Geographic photographer. The text and a few of the images are available online here:- http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/12/wallace/quammen-text
David and Robert both came over to the UK to work with me on this article in March and I spent several days with each of them. When the article was being edited I spent a lot of time checking the facts in the text and the information on the map illustrating Wallace's Line. I was very, very impressed by how thoroughly NGM check every single fact they print.
National Geographic Magazine has a worldwide circulation in thirty-two language editions of nearly nine million copies, and more than fifty million people read the magazine every month. That's a lot of people who are soon going to find out about Wallace - many of them for the first time!
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Wallace called "flying" frogs "very interesting to Darwinians." They showed how webbed feet for swimming had been adapted for gliding. |
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