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Making room for science: Susannah Gibson: The spirit of inquiry: how one extraordinary society shaped modern science. As Gibson puts it: The Society gave confidence to Cambridge's men of science. Gibson praises the Cambridge statistician Ronald Fisher for having "successfully linked the slowly changing continuous evolution of Darwin to the saltations of the geneticists" (232). Also, Gibson admits that Darwin's I Origin i was received less than enthusiastically by the Society leaders. [Extracted from the article]

The Darwinian revolution and its counterrevolutionaries then and now: Randall Fuller: The book that changed America: how Darwin's theory of evolution ignited a nation. New York: Viking, 2017, x + 294 pp, $27.00 HB Michael J. Behe: Darwin devolves: the new science about DNA that challenges evolution. This self-taught naturalist sent a letter to Darwin from the island of Ternate while exploring the Malay Archipelago (probably March 25, 1858) outlining his theory of natural selection, prompting a shocked and distraught Darwin to finally unveil his theory (along with Wallace's letter) to the Linnean Society on July 1, 1858. Wallace's objections to Darwin's materialism were based on Darwin's own principle of utility, and Wallace's belief that natural selection primarily acted as an eliminative rather than a building force in nature (Flannery [14], 34). [Extracted from the article]