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Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was a man of many talents - an explorer, collector, naturalist, geographer, anthropologist and political commentator. Most famously, he had the revolutionary idea of evolution by natural selection entirely independently of Charles Darwin. A life-changing friendship.
Explore the answers to these questions and more in Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life, the acclaimed new biography of Wallace by Professor Michael A. Flannery of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.The provocative thesis of Prof. Flannery is that Wallace, in developing his unique brand of evolution, presaged modern intelligent ...
But in the mid-1800s, Darwin and the British biologist Alfred Russel Wallace independently conceived of a natural, even observable, way for life to change: a process Darwin called natural selection. The pressure of population growth. Interestingly, Darwin and Wallace found their inspiration in economics.
Alfred Russel Wallace, codiscoverer of the principle of natural selection was also the founder of the field of biogeography. Like Charles Darwin, he too had a vast experience of field work in South America (four years of professional collecting from 1848 - 1852).
Alfred Russel Wallace, (born Jan. 8, 1823, Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales—died Nov. 7, 1913, Broadstone, Dorset, Eng.), British naturalist. Though trained as a surveyor and architect, he became interested in botany and traveled to the Amazon in 1848 to collect specimens. In 1854–62 he toured the Malay Archipelago, augmenting his collection.
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 – 1913) was a fearless Victorian naturalist and explorer. He is most known for having come up with the revolutionary idea of evolution by natural selection...
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was a scientific and social thinker, early biogeographer and ecologist. Although now less famous than his contemporary and correspondent Charles Darwin, the self-taught Wallace arrived independently at a theory of the evolution of species by natural selection.
