The American Museum of Natural History has put up the audio from David Attenborough’s talk, “Alfred Russel Wallace and the Birds of Paradise,” on November 12 here.
David Attenborough unveiling the statue of Alfred Wallace at the Natural History Museum London, photo by “Greta dark”
The Royal Society has also put up audio from several lectures given at a conference on October 21-22, “Alfred Russel Wallace and his legacy” (each link is direct to an mp3):
Dr George Beccaloni, Natural History Museum, UK
Wallace’s lifeDr John van Wyhe, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Wallace and Darwin: what really happened?Professor Janet Browne, Harvard University, USA
Natural selection a la WallaceProfessor Steve Jones FRS, University College London, UK
Wallace and the Limits to Natural SelectionProfessor Charles H. Smith, Western Kentucky University, USA
Early Humboldtian Influences on Alfred Russel Wallace’s Scheme of NatureProfessor Lynne Parenti, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, USA
The Modern Biogeographical Legacy of Alfred Russel WallaceProfessor R.I. Vane-Wright, Natural History Musuem, UK
Wallace and ColourationProfessor Tim Caro, University of California, Davis, USA
Colouration todayProfessor James Mallet, University College London and Harvard University, UK and USA
Wallace’s understanding of species and speciationProfessor Tim Birkhead FRS, University of Sheffield, UK
Wallace, Darwin and female choiceProfessor Ted Benton, University of Essex, UK
Wallace and human evolutionProfessor Chris Stringer FRS, Natural History Museum, UK
Old and new views on human evolutionMartin Rees FRS, University of Cambridge, UK
Wallace and the universeProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz FRS, University of Cambridge, UK
The Vaccination ControversyDr David Stack, University of Reading, UK
Wallace, a social scientist’s perspectiveDr Andrew Berry, Harvard University, USA
The Wallace legacy
The Dispersal of Darwin 