Writing in 1909, two naturalists who had worked in India set out to weigh the rival theories of evolution: Wallace’s strict natural selection, Lamarckism and De Vries’s mutation theory. They examine variation, hybridism, inheritance, sexual selection and warning colours, citing feeding experiments with birds and tree-shrews, and argue that natural selection has been given too large a role.
A revealing snapshot of the debates about Darwinism before the modern synthesis. Download the free EPUB.