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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 writings on the topic.
Jun 11, 2024 · Alfred Russel Wallace, British humanist, naturalist, geographer, and social critic. He became known for his views on scientific, social, and spiritualist subjects. His formulation of the theory of evolution by natural selection, which predated Charles Darwin’s published contributions, is his outstanding legacy.
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.
For years Alfred Russel Wallace was little more than an obscure adjunct to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Remembered only for prompting Darwin to write On the Origin of Species in 1859 by sending Darwin his own letter proposing a theory of natural selection, Wallace was rightly dubbed by one biographer “the forgotten naturalist.”. While the complaint still has a ring of truth, a ...
The genius of Darwin (left), the way in which he suddenly turned all of biology upside down in 1859 with the publication of the Origin of Species, can sometimes give the misleading impression that the theory of evolution sprang from his forehead fully formed without any precedent in scientific history.But as earlier chapters in this history have shown, the raw material for Darwin’s theory ...
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 entirely independently of Charles Darwin.
Alfred 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). And like Charles Darwin, he too would credit the reading of Malthus' On Population as a central stimulus for the key insight of ...
Apr 14, 2023 · Introduction. Alfred Russel Wallace (b. 1823–d. 1913) was one of the most brilliant theoretical and field biologists of the 19th century. He was a meticulous field observer, a prolific generator of ideas on a broad spectrum of issues ranging from evolutionary biology to social and political concerns, and a theoretician whose work laid some of the main foundations for the scientific study of ...
Jun 11, 2018 · WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL(b. Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales, 8 January 1823; d. Broadstone, Dorset, England, 7 November 1913), natural history.Wallace was the eighth of nine children born to Thomas Vere Wallace and Mary Anne Greenell.
Thursday 7 November 2013 marked the centenary of the death of Alfred Russel Wallace, one of the 19th century’s greatest explorers and naturalists. This exhibit celebrates Wallace’s long association with the Museum.
