Re: Darwin et al. in new 2002 book

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Stephan Pickering (stefanpickering2002@yahoo.com) wrote:

<Darwin, incidentally, did mention dinosaurs in his 1859 tome (parts
hurriedly rewritten and plagiarized from Alfred Russel Wallace's 1858
mss.])>

  Pardon me, but the idea that Darwin ripped Wallace off is an unfounded
myth. Records of Darwin's correspondence showed that papers published by
Wallace during his trips to Indonesia were followed up on by Darwin, and
the two corresponded. Darwin probably saw Wallace's manuscript, and the
man fell sick not long after Darwin published, but both men saw the same
thing based on their notes and reached the same conclusions regarding
micro-diversification and specialization in contained, restricted
environments. Whereas Wallace employed the biogeography angle, Darwin used
the environmental selection angle.

  As for insects in Victorian dreams ... heh ... the sisters confessed to
having made fairy-shaped props, and flying insects were not in the
picture. Incidentally, on that mein, some of the pictures -- the earliest
ones -- could not be debunked. So, in the main stream of things, what may
be myths are not, and what are called facts are myths.

  Cheers,

=====
Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

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