From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B14–19
Summary:
Argues the antiquity of the human species because natural selection acts differently with respect to men. Changes in man are largely confined to head and brain. Warfare and sex are very uncertain as means of selection.
Gives CD complete credit for theory of natural selection.
Is beginning his narrative of his travels.
Lyell argues against tracing man as far back as Miocene times. R. I. Murchison’s argument that Africa is the oldest existing land implies that Africa is the place to look for early man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
