...selection, our singing voice, our "unnecessarily perfect" hands and feet, and of course our moral sense. "The inference I would draw from this class of phenomena...of man in a definite direction, and for a special purpose,"23 Wallace concluded in 1871, the year in which Darwin published his major statement on human...

...Wallace this moral sentiment was not accountable in Darwinian or Spencerian terms. Instead, he wrote, "The inference I would draw from this class of phenomena...the development of many animal and vegetable forms." 43 38. Wallace, "The Limits of Natural Selection," Natural Selection, 193. 39. Ibid., 191. 40. Ibid.,...

...the savage state"), man's hairlessness, man's feet, hands, and voice, and so on — Wallace inferred that "a superior intelligence has guided the development...guides the development of many animal and vegetable forms."4 A second factor probably helped change Wallace's original views on man, a factor stemming...

...Wallace goes further and argues that modern humans were never really enmeshed in mundane evolution, that 'a superior intelligence has guided the development...a definite direction, and for a special purpose', and that 'if we are not no the highest intelligences in the universe, some higher intelligence may...

...distinctively human traits had been artificially selected for us: 'a superior intelligence', he proposed, 'has guided the development of man in a definite direction,...guides the development of many animal and vegetable forms'.40 Humans were thus like domestic animals in the hands of higher spiritual powers. Their superintendence...

...intellection to Darwinian processes. He saw in these attributes a 'superior intelligence which had guided the development of man in a definite direction and for a special purpose' (Gould: l982). In the stages of classic evolution we see vestiges of the medieval Great Chain of Being....

...reproductive advantage? Fascinated by the transcendent impulse of the mind, Wallace clung to the conviction that "a superior intelligence has guided the development...guides the development of many animal and vegetable forms."2 In his later years, Wallace was drawn to spiritualism and parapsychology as possible keys...

...ever-varying forms of being" (Wallace 187o, p. 343) . In the special case of man, Wallace concluded, "a superior intelligence has guided the development...in a definite direction, and for a special purpose" (Wallace 187o, p. 359) . 1 Darwin on the Descent of Man Given his naturalistic perspective, Darwin...

...introducía a la metafísica ya los espíritus dentro de la evolución: The inference I would draw for this class of phenomena is, that a superior intelligence...the development of many animal and vegetable forms. (Wallace, en George, 1964, Part III: 7). El hombre resultaba ser la mascota de Dios, con pulmones moldeados...

...the fittest, for example, the brain, the hairless body, the voice, the moral faculties. He concludes, The inference I would draw from this class of phenomena...the development of many animal and vegetable forms . . . we must therefore admit the possibility that, if we are not the highest intelligence in the universe,...