Forgotten evolutionist lives in Darwin's shadow


	Forgotten evolutionist lives in Darwin's shadow

tabsey

6-29-2009 6:38 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6a6fb6dd-6e65-4676-ad72-744c68eb75fd/A5829F1F-786A-4818-B49D-7A13237BB35B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090628/ap_on_sc/as_fea_malaysia_forgotten_evolutionist_1" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090628/ap_on_sc/as_fea_malaysia_forgotten_evolutionist_1" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090628/ap_on_sc/as_fea_malaysia_forgotten_evolutionist_1"><P>It is on this site, in a long-gone thatched hut, that <SPAN id="lw_1246215882_0" class="yshortcuts">Alfred Russel Wallace</SPAN> is believed to have spent weeks in 1855 writing a seminal paper on the <SPAN id="lw_1246215882_1" class="yshortcuts">theory of evolution</SPAN>. Yet he is largely unknown outside scientific circles today, overshadowed by <SPAN id="lw_1246215882_2" class="yshortcuts">Charles Darwin</SPAN>, whom most people credit as the father of a theory that explains the <SPAN id="lw_1246215882_3" class="yshortcuts">origins of life</SPAN> through how plants and animals evolve.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090628/ap_on_sc/as_fea_malaysia_forgotten_evolutionist_1"><P>Unlike Wallace, Darwin spent two decades developing his <SPAN id="lw_1246215882_5" class="yshortcuts">theory of natural selection</SPAN> and had far more evidence to back it up, as presented in his defining work, "The Origin of Species," published 150 years ago. But Wallace reached the same conclusion before Darwin published his findings, and Beccaloni contends that Wallace deserves equal billing.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090628/ap_on_sc/as_fea_malaysia_forgotten_evolutionist_1"><P>Wallace, a British beetle and bird collector, set off for Singapore in 1854. Eight years and 14,000 miles (23,000 kilometers) later, he returned to England as one of the most celebrated biologists after Darwin.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A5829F1F-786A-4818-B49D-7A13237BB35B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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