Darwin and Wallace … here we go again.

John Wilkins has a nice post up regarding the deification and demonization of Darwin. With regards the latter, he particularly discusses something I have intended to blog since I heard about it through a Wall Street Journal article - Roy Davies' book, The Darwin Conspiracy, which repeats the historically inaccurate (and unfortunately perennial) claim that Darwin plagiarized Wallace. Davies is a retired TV producer. Wilkins is an historical philosopher. Jim Lennox - who has replied to Davies' claim - is a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science. I'm not saying that Davies has to be wrong regarding Darwin, but he is definitely wrong here.

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Dead *or* buried.

By John Lynch (not verified) on 06 Jan 2009 #permalink

I don't see a link to the Wilkins article!

@ Ian

D'oh! My bad. Fixed.

By John Lynch (not verified) on 07 Jan 2009 #permalink