Wallace's World: Darwin in reverse—From natural selection to natural theology?: Michael A. Flannery: Nature's prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and his evolution from natural selection to natural theology. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2018, xvi + 260pp. USD$44.95 E-book

It has seldom been out of print, and in 2015 I The Annotated Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace, i edited by John Van Wyhe appeared, updating the itinerary, and bringing the journey to life for the modern reader: it also points out Wallace's occasional errors. While, Wallace maintained, early hominids might have evolved through the agency of natural selection, as Flannery puts it: "The unique "social and sympathetic" capacities arising from advanced mental development set humans apart and freed them from the tyranny of natural selection" (16). Chapter five, "Wallace's Integrated World" seeks to reveal the essential unity of Wallace's thought. An Appendix reprints three of Wallace's most significant papers, including the one read as part of the joint Darwin-Wallace presentation to the Linnean Society in 1858, so that the evolution of his ideas can be traced. [Extracted from the article]