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Title: | Going the whole orang: Darwin, Wallace and the natural history of orangutans | Authors: | van Wyhe, J Kjærgaard, PC |
Keywords: | Alfred Russel Wallace Anthropology Charles Darwin Great apes Human evolution Orangutans Animals Biological Evolution Biology Borneo History, 19th Century Humans Natural History Pongo Selection, Genetic United Kingdom |
Issue Date: | 1-Jun-2015 | Publisher: | Elsevier BV | Citation: | van Wyhe, J, Kjærgaard, PC (2015-06-01). Going the whole orang: Darwin, Wallace and the natural history of orangutans. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 51 : 53-63. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.02.006 | Abstract: | This article surveys the European discovery and early ideas about orangutans followed by the contrasting experiences with these animals of the co-founders of evolution by natural selection, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. The first non-human great ape that both of them interacted with was the orangutan. They were both profoundly influenced by what they saw, but the contexts of their observations could hardly be more different. Darwin met orangutans in the Zoological Gardens in London while Wallace saw them in the wild in Borneo. In different ways these observations helped shape their views of human evolution and humanity's place in nature. Their findings played a major role in shaping some of the key questions that were pursued in human evolutionary studies during the rest of the nineteenth century. | Source Title: | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/229161 | ISSN: | 13698486 18792499 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.02.006 |
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