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 ...
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 ...
On April 26, 1848, English naturalists Alfred Wallace and Henry Bates set sail for the Amazon from England. The expeditions ...
Homes sweet homes : a biographical tour of Wallace's many places of residence / George Beccaloni -- "Ardent beetle-hunters" : natural history, collecting, and the theory of evolution / Andrew Berry -- ...
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 ...