Alfred Russel Wallace; letters and reminiscences

Wallace, Alfred Russel; Marchant, James

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“…Admitting that 'Anthropologicals did not seem to appreciate it much', Wallace suggested to Darwin that the paper provided his 'settled opinion on these subjects, if nobody can show a fallacy in the argument'. 32 As the leadership of the ASL became more vocally anti-Darwinian, this issue would drive a wedge between Wallace and the ASL. Although Wallace continued to participate at meetings for a considerable while longer, his enthusiasm for the ASL as a vehicle for his public participation in the science of man was fading.…”

Section: Wallace Applies Natural Selection To Human Evolutionmentioning

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The unmaking of an anthropologist: Wallace returns from the field, 1862–70

Vetter

2009

Notes Rec. R. Soc.

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This essay follows Alfred Russel Wallace back from the field in 1862, tracing how his views on human evolution developed after his field experiences in the East Indies and how he articulated them within the social structure of British science during the 1860s. It analyses his involvement in the metropolitan scientific institutions dedicated to the study of man, the Ethnological Society of London and its breakaway counterpart, the Anthropological Society of London, which offered differing visions for a science of man and its intersection with political commitments. Using evidence from his participation in society meetings, the reception of his own anthropological papers, and the responses to the views he expressed in his field travel narrative, The Malay Archipelago , I show that although Wallace's involvement was initially enthusiastic, over time his views came into conflict with both groups. His involvement in established human science institutions declined, and Wallace turned towards other social locations for cultivating his knowledge of and engagement with questions involving the study of humanity.

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Section: Wallace Applies Natural Selection To Human Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The unmaking of an anthropologist: Wallace returns from the field, 1862–70

Vetter

2009

Notes Rec. R. Soc.

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Had Reverend Jenyns said yes: A small decision with a big impact on biology

Weiss

2006

Evolutionary Anthropology

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Between social cognition and material engagement: the cooperative body hypothesis

Kee

2024

Phenom Cogn Sci

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In recent years, social cognition approaches to human evolution and Material Engagement Theory have offered new theoretical resources to advance our understanding of the prehistoric hominin mind. To date, however, these two approaches have developed largely in isolation from one another. I argue that there is a gap between social- and material-centred approaches, and that this is precisely the sociomateriality of the appearance of ancestral hominin bodies, which evolved under selective pressure to develop increasingly complex, cooperative sociality. To get this sociomaterial body in focus, I develop an esthesiological framework, appropriated from Merleau-Ponty (2003), for interpreting the expressive body in an evolutionary and comparative context. The guiding hypothesis of esthesiology is that before being rationality (social or material), “humanity is another corporeity” (Merleau-Ponty, 2003, p. 208). Esthesiology studies the appearance of the body and its sense organs as an intertwining locus of a sensing power (the ability to see, to touch, etc.) and a sensible character (the visible, touchable body). It is this dual-aspect character of the body that facilitates the most basic affective and sensorimotor modes of sociality. Examining these features from a comparative perspective, we find that the human body is distinctively suited to prosocial communication and cooperation: a more cooperative eye, an exposed and communicative skin. I thus propose a cooperative body hypothesis, by analogy with the cooperative eye hypothesis (Tomasello et al., 2007). Esthesiology provides a framework for integrating and interpreting a wide range of otherwise disconnected facts concerning human and nonhuman animal bodies, forms of life, cognition, and evolution, thereby bridging the gap between social cognition and material engagement perspectives. In doing so, however, it not only solves problems and proposes new directions of investigation, but also demands theoretical revisions from each.

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Alfred Russel Wallace; letters and reminiscences

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The unmaking of an anthropologist: Wallace returns from the field, 1862–70

The unmaking of an anthropologist: Wallace returns from the field, 1862–70

Had Reverend Jenyns said yes: A small decision with a big impact on biology

Between social cognition and material engagement: the cooperative body hypothesis

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