In some of his books on evolution, Dawkins also said very similar things when commenting on Darwin vs Wallace, basically saying that there’s no comparison, Darwin had a better grasp of things, justified it better and more extensively, didn’t have muddled thinking about mechanisms, etc.
I mean to some extent, Dawkins isn’t a historian of science, presentism, yadda yadda but from what I’ve seen he’s right here. Not that Wallace is somehow worse, given that of all the people out there he was certainly closer than the rest. That’s about it
In some of his books on evolution, Dawkins also said very similar things when commenting on Darwin vs Wallace, basically saying that there’s no comparison, Darwin had a better grasp of things, justified it better and more extensively, didn’t have muddled thinking about mechanisms, etc.
I mean to some extent, Dawkins isn’t a historian of science, presentism, yadda yadda but from what I’ve seen he’s right here. Not that Wallace is somehow worse, given that of all the people out there he was certainly closer than the rest. That’s about it