View On Darwin
Brake has stated that Charles Darwin did not have the version of the theory of evolution described in his 1859 Origin of Species until after he had become aware of Alfred Russel Wallace's theory, published in 1855 and 1856, and in a letter to Darwin in 1857. This view has been contested.
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