As James T. Costa notes in “Radical by Nature,” an expansive and insightful biography, Wallace’s peripatetic youth also brought him to the learning societies known as mechanics’ institutes, which ...

The Wallace Line marks a sharp biological divide between Asian and Australasian species, despite islands being just miles apart. Alfred Russel Wallace identified the boundary in 1859 after observing ...

Introduction -- Wallace's itinerary, October 1886 to August 1887. Beginnings : New York arrival, and the Boston area ; Commitments : Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and Baltimore ; Final days in ...

Born 200 years ago, January 8th, 1823, in Wales, United Kingdom, Alfred Russel Wallace was a naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist, and a man of many other talents. Wallace is ...

Everyone knows the name Charles Darwin, but his lesser known frenemy, Alfred Russel Wallace, was developing a lot of the same ...

The theory of evolution does not rhyme only with Charles Darwin. The principle of natural selection was co-discovered by another British naturalist: the forgotten Alfred Russel Wallace, who was born ...

27 September 2012, Singapore – The complete works of the great naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace will be made freely available online today on the Wallace Online website. This project was directed by ...

NHMAIN copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Alan R. Kabat. Sometimes referred to as the "Father of Biogeography," Alfred Russel Wallace has come to be known as the ...

In 1858, while collecting specimens in the Malay Archipelago, Alfred Russel Wallace sent Charles Darwin a short manuscript detailing the concept of natural selection. The note spurred Darwin to ...

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