Nature's Prophet - Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to

An astute study of Alfred Russel Wallace's path to natural theology.

About the author

Michael A. Flannery is a professor emeritus of libraries at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life and editor of Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Intelligent Evolution: How Wallace's World of Life Challenged Darwinism.

Summary

Provides a critical reassessment of Alfred Russel Wallace's path to natural theology and counters the dismissive narrative that Wallace's theistic and sociopolitical positions are not to be taken seriously in the history and philosophy of science.

Product details

• Authors: Michael A Flannery, Michael A. Flannery
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9780817319854
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1985-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Geschichte, Biografien: allgemein, 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, History - General History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists