Andrew Berry’s research while affiliated with Harvard University and other places

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Publications (15)


Alfred Russel Wallace’s first expedition ended in flames
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January 2023

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Nature

Andrew Berry

Born 200 years ago, the evolutionary biologist experienced many setbacks during his career — none more severe than when he headed home with his precious collections from Brazil. Born 200 years ago, the evolutionary biologist experienced many setbacks during his career — none more severe than when he headed home with his precious collections from Brazil.


Mendel and Darwin
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July 2022

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Evolution by natural selection is an explicitly genetic theory. Darwin recognized that a working theory of inheritance was central to his theory and spent much of his scientific life seeking one. The seeds of his attempt to fill this gap, his “provisional hypothesis” of pangenesis, appear in his notebooks when he was first formulating his evolutionary ideas. Darwin, in short, desperately needed Mendel. In this paper, we set Mendel’s work in the context of experimental biology and animal/plant breeding of the period and review both the well-known story of possible contact between Mendel and Darwin and the actual contact between their ideas after their deaths. Mendel’s contributions to evolutionary biology were fortuitous. Regardless, it is Mendel’s work that completed Darwin’s theory. The modern theory based on the marriage between Mendel’s and Darwin’s ideas as forged most comprehensively by R. A. Fisher is both Darwin’s achievement and Mendel’s.

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Michael A. Flannery. Nature's Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2018. Pp. 280. $44.95 (cloth).

October 2019

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Journal of British Studies

Michael A. Flannery. Nature's Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2018. Pp. 280. $44.95 (cloth). - Volume 58 Special Issue - Andrew Berry





Alfred Russel Wallace - Natural selection, socialism, and spiritualism

December 2013

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Current Biology

Alfred Russel Wallace, who died 100 years ago, on November 7 1913, is most often remembered as a kind of ‘Darwin satellite’: the other discoverer of evolution by natural selection. He was, however, a scientific superstar in his own right. In this feature, Andrew Berry examines Wallace’s life. In the following three pieces, Wallace scholar James Costa, Darwin biographer Janet Browne and literary critic James Wood look at different aspects of Wallace’s complex legacy.


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... The search for the molecular basis of the gene began at about the same time, with proteins as the odds-on favorite. Protein's fundamental role in living systems was well established, and with over twenty different amino acids they appeared to have the complexity a genetic core would require [59,63,64]. In 1944, Oswald Avery (1877-1955) and coworkers definitively identified DNA as the genetic material; however, this did not immediately override the prejudice in favor of proteins [65]. ...

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Opinion: The Key Steps in the Origin of Life to the Formation of the Eukaryotic Cell
Mendel and Darwin

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

... Starting out as a theoretical discipline, by the 1950s, population genetics was rich in theory, with little empirical data. Richard Lewontin was among the early population geneticists who worked to bridge this gap [1,2]. Lewontin and his colleagues used allozymes to quantify genetic variation and aimed to understand the distribution of genetic variation in humans. ...

Richard C. Lewontin (1929–2021)
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  • August 2021

Science

... One century later, Alfred R. Wallace is not only acknowledged as the ''second discoverer of natural selection in the wild'', but also as (co)-founder of biogeography, systematic biodiversity research and astrobiology (Berry 2013;Costa 2013;Hossfeld and Olsson 2009;Kutschera 2003Kutschera , 2008Kutschera , 2009aKutschera , b, 2012. Moreover, Wallace was the evolutionary anthropologist who envisioned the anthropocene, i.e., the ''age of Man'' (Kutschera 2013). ...

Evolution's red-hot radical
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  • April 2013

Nature

... Así, en el prólogo al libro, afirma: "this doctrine will enable us to account for some of those residual phenomena which Natural Selection alone will not explain" (p.vii) 6 . Berry (2013b: 5 Véase Revets (2009, Costa (2014) y Ginnobily y Blanco (2017). ...

Alfred Russel Wallace - Natural selection, socialism, and spiritualism
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  • December 2013

Current Biology

... Thompson's mechanics of physical form coupled with Huxley's mathematical growth allometry helped to make evolutionary biology a quantitative science; on a level with physics and chemistry. Both scholars provided human growth examples, helping to situate human growth within an evolutionary context and to situate human evolution firmly within general evolution, as opposed to the view of others that human biology required special evolutionary explanations or Divine intervention (Berry, 2013). ...

Alfred Russel Wallace: Evolution's red-hot radical
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  • April 2013

Nature

... One can only conclude that it is designed, along with the memory discussions, to bolster the one explorative point that Armstrong makes: that Wallace may have suffered from Asperger's syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. Armstrong is not the first to suggest this (see for example Blom 2003;Berry 2008), and in truth, it might help us to understand Wallace's penchant for fact-ordering, numbers, and classification (characteristics Armstrong touches on just a little too often throughout the work). But how does this observation help us understand his process: that is, the priorities he enlisted while on his way to creating order out of chaos? ...

“Ardent Beetle-Hunters”: Natural History, Collecting, and the Theory of Evolution
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