Monday, January 28, 2013

What Alfred Russel Wallace Really Thought About Darwin

It's not that Darwin was lazy, it was that the religious environment was such that one risked being fired for ticking off the religious establishments. It wasn't quite as bad as Galileo, but the same kind of forces.

Thus, he wanted the publication to be as water-tight as possible before releasing it; and that's one of the reasons why the work, for the most part, stands the test of time.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/fg7QoNwcrq0/story01.htm

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