Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace Type post Author Neil Thomas Date August 26, 2022 CategoriesEvolutionEvolutionary PsychologyScience Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, evolution, history, John William Draper, Joseph Hooker, Linnaean Society, natural selection, Nature (journal), On the Origin of Species, Peter Bowler, propaganda, proselytizing, Royal Society, Samuel Wilberforce, Thomas Henry Huxley, X Club Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: The Role of Propaganda Neil Thomas August 26, 2022 Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Science 6 To isolate and quantify the factors which ultimately led to the acceptance of Darwinian ideas is not a straightforward task. Read More ›
Samuel Haughton Type post Author Neil Thomas Date June 10, 2022 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, biosphere, Charles Lyell, David Hull, Democritus, Edward Blyth, Empedocles, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Georges Cuvier, Greece, Homo sapiens, intelligent design, Joseph Hooker, Law of Correlation, Linnaean Society, Loren Eiseley, materialism, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, pigeons, Rome, Royal Society, Samuel Haughton, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, Whitwell Elwin, William Irvine Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic Neil Thomas June 10, 2022 Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design 18 Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.” Read More ›