The Alfred Russel Wallace Website

4 ways you can ignite innovation
CBS News
Innovation needs to be done quickly, or your company may be the equivalent of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (who worked on developing calculus but was outpaced by Issac Newton), or Alfred Russel Wallace (who worked on the theory of evolution even though ...

La Voce di Manduria
Storia dell'evoluzione (Di una rivoluzione scientifica)
La Voce di Manduria
Sì, costretto da un giovane naturalista Alfred Russel Wallace, che nella primavera del 1858 gli invia un breve saggio evoluzionistico per chiederne un parere. Il testo di Wallace conteneva una sua concezione indipendente sulla selezione naturale: ...

Darwin und Wallace Jene eine Stunde im Hafen
ZEIT ONLINE
Vergessen wird dabei bis heute immer wieder ein Mann, der in einer auffälligen Koinzidenz mit Darwin die Evolutionstheorie entdeckt hatte – Alfred Russel Wallace. In die Annalen der Wissenschaftsgeschichte ist er als der ewige Zweite und der Mann im ...

ARKive Celebrates Charles Darwin
ARKive (blog)
The joint announcement with Alfred Russel Wallace of 'the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection' in 1858 and the subsequent publication of 'On the Origin of Species', along with his other works have shaped the landscape of science as we know it.

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Z6Mag
Why Do Zebras Have Stripes? To Keep Away Horseflies
Z6Mag
The question has been speculated since 1870 when Charles Darwin criticized Alfred Russel Wallace and his theory about Zebra's having stripes to help camouflage themselves in tall grass. Darwin's argument was that Zebras like the Savannahs were the ...
How The Zebra Got Its StripesDiscovery News

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D'où viennent les rayures du zèbre ?
Le Monde
Dès l'origine de la théorie de l'évolution, Charles Darwin et Alfred Russel Wallace (qui a développé une théorie de la sélection naturelle en même temps que le célèbre naturaliste), bataillaient à ce propos. A la fin du XIXe siècle, Wallace voyait dans ...

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How The Zebra Got Its Stripes
Discovery News
Scientists have been speculating about the purpose of the zebra's stripes since the 1870s, when Charles Darwin criticized Alfred Russel Wallace's theory that the stripes provided camouflage in tall grass. Zebras prefer open savannahs, Darwin argued, ...

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Darwin ve Evrim Teorisi
Milliyet
Canlıların yavaş yavaş değişmesine ilişkin düşüncesi, kendisi gibi bir bilim adamı olan ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE'nin teorisine de uygun düşer. Ortak temel yaklaşımları şöyledir: “Bütün canlılar bulundukları ortamdaki sayılarını muhafaza edecek ...

Discover Magazine (blog)
Ebooks: More Boon to Literacy Than Threat to Democracy
Discover Magazine (blog)
Charles Darwin, for instance, rushed out The Origin of Species in 1859 in a fit of desperation, his hand forced by Alfred Russel Wallace's near-simultaneous discovery of evolution. Darwin was not terribly happy with how the book turned out, ...

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Alfred Russel Wallace, Iconoclast Extraordinaire
Discovery Institute
That's one reason ENV keeps coming back to Alfred Russel Wallace, evolutionary theory's co-founder. Apart from the inherent historical and scientific fascination of his life and ideas, well and compactly portrayed in John West's new documentary short ...

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One Last Word on Alfred Russel Wallace, Intelligent Design -- and ...
Discovery Institute
Concluding his contributions to our debate on Alfred Russel Wallace and intelligent design ("Hyper-evolutionism, Scientism, and the Mythical Wallace of Michael Shermer"), Michael Flannery objects to my use of the term "Intelligent Design creationist" ...

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Cross-curricular resources: Darwin Day
Times Educational Supplement
What is less well known is that this elegant theory was also conceived by another, more obscure scientist: Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913). Wallace's role is often played down or ignored altogether. Yet a hardcore group is convinced that herein lies ...

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Michael Shermer Concedes! Wallace Was an ID Advocate!
Discovery Institute
I thought I would add a concluding reflection on my debate with Michael Shermer ("Resolved: If He Were Alive Today, Alfred Russel Wallace Would Be an Intelligent Design Advocate"). Shermer's reply to my opener seems a stunning concession of the main ...

Hyper-evolutionism, Scientism, and the Mythical Wallace of Michael Shermer
Discovery Institute
It would seem appropriate to provide some definition of intelligent design if, to paraphrase Michael Shermer, associating Alfred Russel Wallace with ID is a perilous misjudgment. Shermer's term "Intelligent Design creationism" signals his own ...

Cabinet of Wonders: Personal Collection of Alfred Russel Wallace
LiveScience.com
... a program manager from the National Science Foundation, when given the opportunity to see, smell, and even touch the very specimens that British naturalist and field biologist Alfred Russel Wallace collected nearly two centuries ago.

Bilbao celebrará el Día de Darwin el 14 de febrero
El Correo Digital (Vizcaya)
Bilbao volverá a celebrar este año el nacimiento de Charles Darwin, codescubridor de la teoría de la evolución junto a Alfred Russel Wallace. La Biblioteca de Bidebarrieta acogerá el 14 de febrero, a partir de las 19 horas, sendas conferencias de José ...

Naturalist Wallace's Sarawak experience retraced
Malaysia Star
KUCHING: Most Sarawakians do not realise that in Kuching they are basically following the footsteps of Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace is one of the two founders of the theory of evolution by natural selection. The other one being Charles Darwin.

The Natural and the Supernatural: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Nature of Science
Discovery Institute
Michael Flannery's assessment of Alfred Russel Wallace as a prescient scientist who anticipated modern Intelligent Design theory is premised on the belief that modern evolutionary biologists have failed to explain the myriad abilities of the human mind ...

Wallace Would Be an Intelligent Design Advocate -- and a Prescient Figure in ...
Discovery Institute
This argument is advanced in several essays appearing in Natural Selection and Beyond: The Intellectual Legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace (2009). My primary objection to this position is that it simply ignores (or worse, distorts) the last 44 years of ...

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OneNewsNow
Evolution theory co-founder a 'heretic'
OneNewsNow
A documentary that premiers online this Saturday tells why Alfred Russel Wallace, the man who shares credit with Charles Darwin for the theory of natural selection, later became known as Darwin's heretic. "Alfred Russel Wallace was one of the leading ...

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