Photo-Finish
John Hedley Brooke, 23 May 1985
Just Before the Origin: Alfred Russel Wallace’s Theory of Evolution
by John LangdonBrooks.
Columbia, 284 pp., $39, January 1984,0 231 05676 1 Show More
by John LangdonBrooks.
Columbia, 284 pp., $39, January 1984,
China and Charles Darwin
by James Reeve Pusey.
Harvard, 544 pp., £21.25, February 1984,0 674 11735 2 Show More
by James Reeve Pusey.
Harvard, 544 pp., £21.25, February 1984,
“... else would. And we all know that, in a photo-finish, Wallace almost did; or, if we are to believe John LangdonBrooks, really did. If philosophers have been attracted to these historical sites, it is partly because the pattern of simultaneous discovery might seem to substantiate a relatively uncomplicated, inductivist ... ”
