Former Minister of Universities brings his book about the explorer and his legacy “of successes and mistakes” to the Espín Center
Juan Ramón Medina Precioso (Villaralto, 1947), former manager and strong supporter of the Lorca University Campus from 2009 to 2012, presented the work ‘Alfred Russel Wallace’ (Guadalmazán) at the Espín Cultural Center, which fully and harmoniously reflects the life of the controversial naturalist. “A very interesting travel book dealing with biology, history and science, political ideas, in short a philosophical biography,” said the poet and literature professor Pedro Felipe Sánchez Granados, who introduced Precioso, doctor of biology and professor of genetics. .
Explorer, naturalist, geographer, anthropologist, philosopher and political analyst, at the time of his death the Briton Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) had written more than twenty books and more than a thousand articles and letters which were published, Medina recalled Precious . “An unknown author to the general public”, acknowledged the Mayor of Lorca, Diego José Mateos, “Wallace’s life represents a legacy of successes and mistakes, but above all of tireless work, excessive intuition and inspiration for future generations”, assured the author of this bundle. The mayor recognized Precious and said that “our city owes him a lot, including the establishment of the University Campus and the Integrated Center for Vocational Training.”
Professor Medina Precioso, who was a councilor for universities of the PP government in the Murcia region from 2003 to 2008, focused much of his speech on the similarity of theories between Wallace and his contemporary Charles Darwin, and their general lines of modern evolutionary theory. which he sensed and communicated to Darwin in 1858, «the year he was ill and locked up in a hut on the island of Ternate, now Indonesia, he had an intuition as he began to understand how species evolved: they changed because the smallest individuals that fit, survived and reproduced, and passed on their beneficial qualities to their offspring,” he writes of Wallace.
Source: La Verdad
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