1864 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)

The origin of human races and the antiquity of man deduced from the theory of “natural selection."

Wallace delivered this paper to the polygenist Anthropological Society of London on 1 March 1864. It represents “the first effort to connect natural selection to the touchy problem of the evolution of human races” (Wa…

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