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Science 6 December 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5600, pp. 1894 - 1895
DOI: 10.1126/science.1079569
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Wallace in a Colored Spotlight

A review by Thomas Söderqvist

In Darwin's Shadow
The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace. A Biographical Study on the Psychology of History
Michael Shermer
Oxford University Press, New York, 2002. 442 pp. $35, £25. ISBN 0-19-514830-4.

This account of the life of the coauthor of the theory of natural selection and believer in spiritualism is centered around the question of why some thinkers can break out of the conventional mold while others do not.
The author is in the Department of History of Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Bredgade 62, DK-1260 Copenhagen, Denmark. E-mail: t.soderqvist{at}pubhealth.ku.dk

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)