alfred russel wallace live along and full life dying at the age of 90. the aged 80 he was still writing. instead, i would argue, is most important work was published in 1900 for in his eighth decade. that is the title page of it there. man's place in the universe, the study of the results of research in relation to the unit's you a plurality of worlds. a very strange tale in the. what this book very -- really is is a summary of wallace's understanding of what the evolutionary had created. he wasn't interested in drilling down ever more finely in terms of understanding the evolutionary mechanism. he had done that in 1858. what he wanted to know was what it created. being a holistic tinker, his field of endeavor was the entire planet. this book is the foundation stone of science and astor biology. comparing worlds quite literally imposes the theory that this planet is the only living planet. the others, wherever they be in the universe. it is also the foreign of another theory. he talks in the book about the atmosphere, the way the atmosphere works, the wa