Science
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Scientific communicator in the Darwin–Wallace publication
Also known as Joseph Hooker · J. D. Hooker
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Who they are
Joseph Dalton Hooker helped bring Darwin’s and Wallace’s separately developed arguments on natural selection before the Linnean Society. With Charles Lyell, he arranged and communicated the 1858 presentation and wrote its covering explanation. His role in this milestone concerns mediation and publication, while authorship of the evolutionary arguments remains with Darwin and Wallace.
He makes the scholarly network behind a major scientific publication visible.
Selected contributions
- Coarranged the joint communication with Lyell and signed the covering letter.Source ↗
Primary records
Academic paper · 1858 · Historical society communication
On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection
The joint communication presents Darwin’s earlier extracts and Wallace’s independent essay on how natural selection can preserve variation. Lyell and Hooker’s covering letter explains how the separate contributions were brought together.
Reading scope & citation
Prior relevant primary sections and edition metadata reused; source page freshly retrieved. Not a full reread of all three texts. Reuses the input’s documented prior inspection: Relevant primary sections and edition metadata inspected. Editorial corrections are distinguished from the original covering letter's dates. No fresh full-work reread in this directory pass.
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Biography sources & portrait credit
- On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection ↗Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Zoology 3:45–62; transcription at Darwin Online
Portrait credit
Unknown photographer. Public domain (Commons file-specific copyright declaration). Via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
Image source & identification ↗ · Public domain (Commons file-specific copyright declaration) ↗
