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Bookmark or Share- Alfred Russel Wallace | early-evolution - Harvard UniversityAlfred 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: Biography, Theory Of Evolution & FactsAlfred Russel Wallace was a key contributor to the theory of evolution and the theory of natural selection. His paper detailing the natural selection mechanism was published together with writings by Charles Darwin in 1858, setting the basis for our understanding of how species evolve over time.
- Alfred Wallace - National Geographic SocietyAlfred 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.
- Biography of Wallace | The Alfred Russel Wallace WebsiteHis best known zoological discoveries are Wallace's Golden Birdwing Butterfly (Ornithoptera croesus) and Wallace's Standard-Wing Bird of Paradise (Semioptera wallacei), both from Bacan island, and Rajah Brooke's Birdwing Butterfly (Trogonoptera brookiana) from Borneo.
- A Rediscovered Life | Alfred Russel WallaceExplore 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 ...
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