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  1. Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) 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 earlier ...

  2. Jun 11, 2024 · Alfred Russel Wallace (born January 8, 1823, Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales—died November 7, 1913, Broadstone, Dorset, England) was a British humanist, naturalist, geographer, and social critic.

  3. Oct 19, 2023 · Alfred Russel Wallace was born in Wales in 1823. He has been described variously as a naturalist, a geographer, and a social critic. He even weighed in on the debate as to whether or not life could exist on Mars. However, what he is best known for is his work on the theory of natural selection.

  4. 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.

  5. 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...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Jan 7, 2023 · This is where, in February 1855, naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace wrote his hugely influential “Sarawak Law” paper. It’s as crucial to Wallace’s own thinking in disentangling the mechanisms of evolution as the Galàpagos Islands famously were to his contemporary, Charles Darwin. Three years later, in 1858, two papers that would change ...

  8. Wallace Online is the first complete edition of the writings of Alfred Russel Wallace, including the first compilation of his specimens and the only way to search all of his publications with a powerful search engine.

  9. 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.

  10. Jan 4, 2023 · A perhaps unexpected one is a 170-year-old book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who visited the Amazon and Negro rivers on his expeditions in 1848–52.