title: The impact of A. R. Wallace's Sarawak Law paper reassessed.
abstract: This article examines six main elements in the modern story of the impact of Alfred Russel Wallace's 1855 Sarawak Law paper, particularly in the many accounts of Charles Darwin's life and work. These elements are: Each of these are very frequently repeated as straightforward facts in the popular and scholarly literature. It is here argued that each of these is erroneous and that the role of the Sarawak Law paper in the historiography of Darwin and Wallace needs to be revised.
authors.affiliation: National University of Singapore, 4 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, Singapore. Electronic address: dbsjmvw@nus.edu.sg.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van Wyhe
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D049672:History, 19th Century; D008296:Malaysia; D019021:Natural History / Q000266:history*; D012641:Selection, Genetic
keywords: Alfred Russel Wallace; Charles Darwin; Evolution; Historiography; Natural selection; Sarawak Law