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==Legacy==  

==Legacy==  

The scientific community today prefers to avoid the subject of Wallace, because of his unusual religious views for a scientist. As such, his name often goes unmentioned in discussions of evolution despite the major role he played. {{cquote|"G. K. Chesterton once remarked that Wallace was one of the world’s great men because he led a revolution and then a counter-revolution. Having done as much as anyone to overturn traditional religious assumptions, Wallace proceeded to horrify his fellow-evolutionists by concluding that natural selection could not in itself explain the uniqueness of man. He never renounced his evolutionary theory, but instead made it the cornerstone of a theistic explanation of the universe. No wonder a later scientific generation, newly professionalized, ignored him in favor of his more austere and single-minded colleagues... The generations that came after Wallace, extending into our own, have never known quite what to make of him. He remains today too theistic for the Darwinians and too Darwinian for advocates of intelligent design, with whom it is hard to imagine him having much patience... Wallace, whose theory played such a crucial part in severing the relationship between science and religion, then devoted himself to the attempt to link them again. In the century since his death, in 1913, the gulf between science and religion has only widened, and later generations of scientists, reaching for useful models, have overlooked him."<ref name=rosen />}} In February, 2006, a marvelous insect collection of Wallace's was discovered, many of which may even be brand new species to science.<ref>Natural History Museum (2006, February 10). "[http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2006/feb/news_7654.html Lost Wallace treasures found in attic]."</ref> {{cquote|"So thorough was Wallace’s enthusiastic collecting that many of the items in this chest alone promise to be species new to science. One, in fact, was just described by another biologist earlier this year as a new genus, Grimaldi notes."<ref>Harmon, Katherine (2009, November 24). "[http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2009/11/24/naturalist-alfred-russel-wallaces-collection-unveiled-for-the-150th-anniversary-of-darwins-origin-of-species/ Naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace’s collection unveiled for the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species]''." Scientific American.</ref>}}

The scientific community today prefers to avoid the subject of Wallace, because of his unusual religious views for a scientist. As such, his name often goes unmentioned in discussions of evolution despite the major role he played. {{cquote|"G. K. Chesterton once remarked that Wallace was one of the world’s great men because he led a revolution and then a counter-revolution. Having done as much as anyone to overturn traditional religious assumptions, Wallace proceeded to horrify his fellow-evolutionists by concluding that natural selection could not in itself explain the uniqueness of man. He never renounced his evolutionary theory, but instead made it the cornerstone of a theistic explanation of the universe. No wonder a later scientific generation, newly professionalized, ignored him in favor of his more austere and single-minded colleagues... The generations that came after Wallace, extending into our own, have never known quite what to make of him. He remains today too theistic for the Darwinians and too Darwinian for advocates of intelligent design, with whom it is hard to imagine him having much patience... Wallace, whose theory played such a crucial part in severing the relationship between science and religion, then devoted himself to the attempt to link them again. In the century since his death, in 1913, the gulf between science and religion has only widened, and later generations of scientists, reaching for useful models, have overlooked him."<ref name=rosen />}} In February, 2006, a marvelous insect collection of Wallace's was discovered, many of which may even be brand new species to science.<ref>Natural History Museum (2006, February 10). "[http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2006/feb/news_7654.html Lost Wallace treasures found in attic]."</ref> {{cquote|"So thorough was Wallace’s enthusiastic collecting that many of the items in this chest alone promise to be species new to science. One, in fact, was just described by another biologist earlier this year as a new genus, Grimaldi notes."<ref>Harmon, Katherine (2009, November 24). "[http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2009/11/24/naturalist-alfred-russel-wallaces-collection-unveiled-for-the-150th-anniversary-of-darwins-origin-of-species/ Naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace’s collection unveiled for the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species]''." Scientific American.</ref>}}

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