Comments on: Book review – Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace

By: Year list – The Inquisitive Biologist’s top 5 reads of 2023 | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 10:21:48 +0000

[…] Princeton University Press published some smashing science biographies this year, several of which I still need to get around to, but Radical by Nature was hands down my favourite book of the year. Evolutionary biologist James T. Costa has written an in-depth, tremendously enjoyable, and updated biography that draws on intimate details gleaned from the Wallace Correspondence Project. As I have long wanted to read more about Alfred Russel Wallace, it marked the start of a three-part review. Read more… […]

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By: Book review – Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:51:58 +0000

[…] just reviewed James T. Costa’s biography of Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, I was keen to read more about one of the most remarkable episodes in the history of science: how […]

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By: Book review – On the Organic Law of Change: A Facsimile Edition and Annotated Transcription of Alfred Russel Wallace’s Species Notebook of 1855-1859 | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:51:06 +0000

[…] just reviewed James T. Costa’s biography of Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, I was keen to read more about one of the most remarkable episodes in the history of science: how […]

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By: Book review – Too Big to Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 12:40:09 +0000

[…] First Evolutionists. That history remembers Darwin’s contribution but has largely forgotten Alfred RussellRussel Wallace was a wrong righted by amongst others Costa’s Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species. And […]

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By: Book review – The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 12:32:26 +0000

[…] careful and balanced in his coverage. He highlights the contribution of the historically overlooked Alfred Russel Wallace who independently hit on the idea of natural selection after Darwin had already been labouring on […]

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By: Book review – On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’ from Aristotle to DNA | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 12:17:40 +0000

[…] described many” (p. 134). Something he subsequently spent years on. The history of how Alfred Russel Wallace later came to similar conclusions and ran them past Darwin in a letter, and how Charles Lyell and […]

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By: Book review – Dinosaurs – 10 Things You Should Know: 230 Million Years for People Short on Time | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 15:42:54 +0000

[…] have a higher chance of surviving and reproducing” (p. 98). And he acknowledges that Alfred Russell Wallace arrived at this idea around the same time as Darwin did. Thus, in just two sentences, he hits the […]

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