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The Darwin–Wallace Medal is a medal awarded by the Linnean Society of London for "major advances in evolutionary biology". [1] [2] Historically, the medals have been awarded every 50 years, beginning in 1908.
Darwin–Wallace Medal Recipient 2024. Credit: Mitsuyasu Hasebe. Professor Sir Peter Crane FRS. Professor Sir Peter Crane FRS stands as a world leader in evolutionary biology, globally acclaimed for his groundbreaking contributions to the field of plant diversity, both living and extinct.
Nov 30, 2023 · The Darwin Medal was created in memory of Charles Darwin FRS and was first awarded in 1890 to noted biologist and naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace FRS 'for his independent origination of the theory of the origin of species by natural selection.'.
Silver versions of the Darwin-Wallace medal were awarded to six evolutionary biologists on the 1st July 1908 and to 20 recipients on the 1st July 1958 to commemorate the 50th and 100th anniversaries of the reading of the Darwin-Wallace paper respectively.
The Darwin–Wallace Medal is a medal awarded by the Linnean Society of London for "major advances in evolutionary biology". Historically, the medals have been awarded every 50 years, beginning in 1908.
Linnean Medal, established 1888, awarded annually to alternately a botanist or a zoologist or (as has been common since 1958) to one of each in the same year. Darwin-Wallace Medal, first awarded in 1908, for major advances in evolutionary biology.
