Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species

Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species
Author: James T. Costa
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2014-06-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0674729692


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Darwin is credited with discovering evolution through natural selection, but Alfred Russel Wallace saw the same process at work in nature and elaborated the same theory. Dispelling misperceptions of Wallace as a secondary figure, James Costa reveals the two naturalists as equals in advancing one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time.