"...the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.." Thomas Henry Huxley, 1870
Darwin historian John van Wyhe argued in his 1996 article "The impact of A. R. Wallace’s Sarawak Law paper reassessed" that Wallace's famous 'Sarawak Law paper of 1855 was not a argument in favour of
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Suspect, but intricate, reasoning
I have written a detailed critique of John van Wyhe's 2016 paper that re-assessed the impacts of Wallace's Sarawak Law paper. The result is the re-establishment of most of the customary interpretation. My critique is primarily a criticism of the suspect and sometimes invalid reasoning employed by JvW. It is not the usual approach of constructing an alternativ context. I accept almost all the 'facts' forwarded, but not the way they are used. I would be happy to send copies to anyone interested, and would be even more pleased to receive comments back, even criticisms. contact d.partridge@exeter.ac.uk
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