![]() 'Then, as a scientist, you have no difficulty in believing in the existence of consciousness apart from material organism?' None whatever. We are all agreed that ether is the fundamental, matter being its product and it is possible that ether may have other products which are not perceptible by us. There may be a million universes, but they may all be different-certainly, I should say, not all matter. That would mean monotony, instead of infinite variety, which is the keynote of things as they are known to us. To suppose that this one particular type of universe extends over all space is, I consider, to have a low idea of the Creator and His power. Evolution seems to me to fail to account for these tremendous transitions. I believe this influx took place at three stages in evolution-the change (1) from the inorganic to the organic, (2) from the plant to the animal, (3) from the animal to the soul of man. I do not think it is possible to form any idea beyond this, that when man's body was prepared to receive it, there occurred an inbreathing of spirit-call it what you will. I maintain, on the other hand, that there are indications of man having received something that he could not have derived from the lower animals. Darwin believed that the mental, moral, and spiritual nature of man were alike developed from the lower animals, automatically, by the same processes that evolved his physical structure. "My whole argument tends in that direction, though my object in writing 'Man's Place in the Universe' was purely scientific, not religious. The following interview with Wallace in 1903 contains a very thorough revelation of Wallace's religious beliefs: Psyche (Camb.) 37: 107-117.Unlike Darwin, Wallace believed a Creator guided the process of evolution, playing a key role throughout history in the inbreathing of spirit in mankind and bestowing mental faculties to humans. Darlington was also a significant figure as an evolutionary biologist, conducting important studies on mimicry in beetles, flightlessness in island insects, and the Old World origins of vertebrate groups.īorn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 14 November 1904.ġ924, 1926, 1928: field expeditions to locations in the West Indiesġ928-1929: entomological field study in Santa Marta, Colombiaġ931-1933: travels to Australia to study mammalsġ932-1940: assistant curator of insects, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Heavily influenced by the writings of Alfred Russel Wallace and the dispersal-dominated ideas of George Gaylord Simpson, he took a dim view of the notion of continental drift until evidence emerging from the new plate tectonics-based theories of the 1960s changed his mind. ![]() His detailed research in descriptive biology naturally led him to an involvement with biogeography, and the publication of two very well known titles on that subject: Zoogeography: The Geographical Distribution of Animals (1957), and Biogeography of the Southern End of the World (1965), as well as numerous shorter works. His early field studies, focusing on insects (especially carabid beetles) took him to several tropical and subtropical environs, notably Colombia, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Cuba and New Guinea, but he also traveled to Australia and in later years, Tierra del Fuego. Philip Darlington became one of the twentieth century's best known zoogeographers after initially forging a solid career as a specimen collector and taxonomist. AUTHORS: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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