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SUMMARY:Making livings: the economic worlds of Wallace and Darwin - Jim Mo
 ore (Open University)
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DESCRIPTION:Personally no less than professionally\, Alfred Russel Wallace
  and Charles Darwin were chalk and cheese. 'I fear we shall never quite un
 derstand each other'\, an exasperated Darwin wrote to Wallace in 1868\, an
 d the gulf between them was deeper and wider than scholars have yet graspe
 d. Economically they belonged to different worlds: Darwin\, Cambridge-educ
 ated\, Royal Navy-salted\, the scion of Whig reforming medical professiona
 ls and industrialists\, withal a landlord\, rich rentier and country gentl
 eman\; Wallace\, of feckless stock\, a school-leaver at thirteen\, trainee
  surveyor\, socialist and self-employed specimen collector who scoured the
  globe aboard Royal Mail ships and native boats only to land back in Londo
 n and be hailed as Darwin's alter ego. Often on hard times\, short of capi
 tal and inept with cash\, Wallace was credited\, then as now\, with devisi
 ng a theory of evolution identical to Darwin's natural selection\, one emb
 edding the same Malthusian doctrine that prompted Darwin's original insigh
 t and that underpinned the economic liberalism from which Darwin himself p
 rospered. In assessing this view\, it will be useful to ask how far\, give
 n their different economic circumstances\, Wallace and Darwin differed abo
 ut the ways that all species make their livings.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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