Here Brother Wainwright speaks for hissself:
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"A PRECISE comment by Darwin:
In 1831,Mr Patrick Matthew, published his work on Naval Timbers and Arboriculture, in which he gives PRECISELY the same view of the origin of species as that provided by Mr Wallace and myself in the Linnean Journal, and as that enlarged in the present volume (i.e. On the Origin of Species) (Origin of Species,4th edition, p.xv).
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES WITHOUT DARWIN AND WALLACE
Milton Wainwright
Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN
Charles Darwin is usually portrayed as the greatest naturalist of all time, a genius who originated the theory of natural selection to explain the theory of evolution or, transmutation as it was often called in Victorian times. But did Darwin originate any of the ideas given in his famous book On the Origin of Species, first published in 1859? To answer this question I have produced a simulated paper using quotes taken from books and journals written before the end of 1857. In order to produce this simulated paper, I have arranged these quotes in a logical order and have provided reference to their origin. However, except for the occasional linking word (underlined) nothing has been added; the subheadings used were in use at the time the associated quote was written; the italicised words and punctuation were also used by the authors. In some cases the authors quote ideas to demonstrate their opposition to transmutation, nevertheless in so doing, they put such ideas into the public domain, from where they could be accessed by Darwin, or any other naturalist of the day. I have also capitalised “Man” throughout. The simulated paper shows that a) had the Origin of Species not been written, a theory of evolution by natural selection (approximating to that provided by Darwin and Wallace), could have been produced by any naturalist using the literature already published up to 1857, and b) that neither Darwin, nor Alfred Russel Wallace, originated the ideas published in the Origin."
I thought Konrad Lorenz was the greatest naturalist of all time?
I haven't read it yet ... reading it
now.