the Laws which affect the Production of Varieties, Races, and Species, contain the results of the investigations of two indefatigable naturalists, Mr. MY DEAR SIR,-The accompanying papers, which we have the honour of communicating to the Linnean Society, and which all relate to the same subject, viz. Communicated by Sir CHARLES LYELL, F.R.S., F.L.S., and J. ![]() By CHARLES DARWIN, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., & F.G.S., and ALFRED WALLACE, Esq. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, 3(9): 45-62. On the tendency of species to form varieties and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection. Asa Gray, Boston, U.S., dated Down, September 5th, 1857. The separate sections they authored can be individually cited in this way:ĭarwin, C. So Darwin and Wallace's contributions were jointly published (it was often referred to by them as their "joint paper", see for example THIS letter from Darwin), but they did not co-author any of the sections. Apart from the introduction, the other sections were each written by a single author they were not co-authored. These were united under one title to form the publication, Darwin, C. The paper is comprised of four parts: an introduction by Lyell and Hooker two articles by Darwin, each with a separate title, and one article by Wallace, also with a separate title. The way in which Darwin and Wallace's 1858 paper was published is somewhat out of the ordinary. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, xxv + 482 pp. Natural Selection and Beyond: the Intellectual Legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace's annotated copy of the Darwin-Wallace paper on natural selection. A detailed account of the annotations can be read here: Beccaloni, G. Wallace's personal annotated copy of the 1858 paper can be seen HERE This copy was sent to Wallace while he was still in the Malay Archipelago, probably by Darwin. For more about the famous Ternate Essay see and for a detailed account of the curious events which led up to its publication see my article Alfred Russel Wallace and natural selection: the real story It's unexpected arrival at Darwin's home in Kent in June 1858 spurred a shocked Darwin to hastily write his famous book On the Origin of Species, which was published fifteen months later in November 1859. ![]() Wallace's Ternate Essay was written in the village of Dodinga on the Indonesian island of Halmahera (known to Wallace as Gilolo) in February 1858 and posted to Darwin together with a covering letter from the neighbouring island of Ternate, probably in March 1858. It is probably the most important scientific paper in the history of biology and it was read at a meeting of the Linnean Society of London on July 1st 1858, before being published on the 20th August of that year in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society: Zoology. The theory of evolution by natural selection was first proposed by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the scientific paper below (the part Wallace authored is known as his 'Ternate Essay').
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