Wallace’s Footprints in Darwin’s Celebrations
From February till April Darwin’s bicentenary is being celebrated in many parts of the world in a big way. However, his reputation as the originator of the theory of evolution is being brought into question again. A number of scientists have declared Alfred Russel Wallace as having first discovered the theory of evolution. Tempo has been on the trail following Wallace’s footprints in Britain: from Usk, the town of Wallace’s birth in Wales, to meeting his grandson in Lymington, Hampshire.
March 17, 2009
THE Natural History Museum in London is full of decorations. All along the road and in every corner of one of the largest natural history museums in the world are jumbo-size posters declaring, ‘Darwin, Big Idea, Big Exhibition’. Darwin’s collections of insects, his books, his personal letters and his diaries are all on display. Hundreds of people come to the exhibition every day.
These are all part of the museum’s bicentenary commemorati
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