In 1858 Charles Darwin Received a Manuscript from Alfred Russel

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Essay

In 1858 Charles Darwin received a manuscript from Alfred Russel Wallace in which Wallace proposed a theory very similar to his own. Darwin first presented his ideas in a joint paper with Wallace, which was read to the Linnaean Society, also in 1858. Why do you think history primarily associates Darwin's, not Wallace's, name with the theory of evolution?

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