11.29.09
The butterflies and beetles behind evolution
from gnxp
Alfred Russel Wallace was Darwin’s colleague, a globe-trotting naturalist who helped shape the theory of evolution. Thirty years ago, an antique shopper wandered into a modest antique shop in Arlington, Va., looking for Chinese carpets and wound up buying a magnificent rosewood cabinet. It contained Wallace’s personal collection of 1,600 butterflies and insects
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120793257
I think it would be easy for the folks at NPR to consider, from Roy Davies’ The Darwin Conspiracy, that Wallace, with his beetles and butterflies was the real discoverer of what we call Darwinism.