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Alfred Russel Wallace
AuthorBooks · Second hand1823-1913
Alfred Russel Wallace was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection; his 1858 paper on the subject was published that year alongside extracts from Charles Darwin's writings on the topic. It spurred Darwin to set aside the "big species book" he was drafting and to quickly write an abstract of it, which was published in 1859 as On the Origin of Species.
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About Alfred Russel Wallace
Birth
1823
Death
1913
Alfred Russel Wallace was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection; his 1858 paper on the subject was published that year alongside extracts from Charles Darwin's writings on the topic. It spurred Darwin to set aside the "big species book" he was drafting and to quickly write an abstract of it, which was published in 1859 as On the Origin of Species.
Alfred Russel Wallace was a tireless explorer who traveled through the Amazon and the Malay Archipelago to study nature.
He is world-renowned for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection.
His name identifies the Wallace Line, a biogeographical boundary that separates Asian species from Australasian ones.
He was a fascinating polymath who excelled as a naturalist, anthropologist, geographer, and even a beekeeper.
His most famous work, The Malay Archipelago, is an essential account of his travels and scientific discoveries.
