The Alfred Russel Wallace Website

Darwin's sudden realization in 1858 that he had a serious intellectual competitor, Alfred Russel Wallace, caused him great mental and physical distress. But it also had the beneficial effect of goading him into "Origin" within a year. ...

Theirs was an age of never-to-be-repeated mapping of the world's plants and animals, a time of The Origin of Species and the feting of explorer-scientists such as Bates, Alfred Russel Wallace and Darwin. The discovery and naming of ...

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Meet the beetles
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... the world's plants and animals, a time of The Origin of Species and the feting of explorer-scientists such as Bates, Alfred Russel Wallace and Darwin. ...

This is Wallace's golden birdwing butterfly (Ornithoptera croesus) collected by Alfred Russel Wallace himself on the Indonesian island of Batchian (Bacan) in 1859. ... Such intriguing pictures have been released after a BBC documentary ...

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In pictures: Nature's palace
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This is Wallace's golden birdwing butterfly (Ornithoptera croesus) collected by Alfred Russel Wallace himself on the Indonesian island of Batchian (Bacan) ...

In his definitive work on travel and geography in the east indies, The Malay archipelago, renowned British naturalis, Alfred Russel Wallace made mention of the lush tropical forest and volcanoes of the “The great island of Sumatra. ...

See, for example, “Island Life: or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras”, by Alfred Russel Wallace, which was first published in 1880. Another landmark book, about ecological processes on islands, is MacArthur, ...

Former Croydon resident featured on commemorative stamp
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Alfred Russel Wallace, a former member of Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society (CNHSS), published a joint paper about the theory with Darwin. ...

However, it turns out the actual answer is Alfred Russel Wallace. The essay presents a brief biography of Wallace and reveals his theory and connection to Darwin. The Book of Firsts is a wonderfully engaging treasure trove of ...

"Darwinism" by Alfred Russel Wallace. The Cambridge Library Collection – Life Sciences: Two hundred years after his birth and 150 years after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin and his theories are still the ...

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Un périple sur les traces d'Alfred Russel Wallace, naturaliste explorateur du siècle dernier, dans le royaume d'une nature à la fois toute puissante et ...

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Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, William H. Hudson, Henry Walter Bates, Thomas Belt, Frank Chapman, and David and Barbara Snow--they all write well and report fresh observations and/or interpretations. RMP: What advice would you ...

Groundbreaking scientist immortalised in stamps
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Alfred Russel Wallace co-authored one of the most groundbreaking scientific theories ever produced - the theory of evolution by natural selection - with ...

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A history of the natural world in six objects
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"Then, in 1858, Darwin got a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining his own version of natural selection, and he dropped everything to write On The ...

In the mid-1850s, a young English naturalist named Alfred Russel Wallace journeyed to the Malay Archipelago, where he would spend eight years in what he later called “the central and controlling incident” of his life. ...

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Darwin, o homem que enfrentou Deus
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Ela se tornou premente em 1857, quando Darwin recebeu um calhamaço enviado da Indonésia pelo naturalista Alfred Russel Wallace. ...

Later, Darwin was persuaded to accept the term 'Survival of the Fittest' by his collaborator and fellow traveller, Alfred Russel Wallace, and thought that the term 'avoided the troublesome anthropomorphism of selecting'. ...

The most obvious choice was a Alfred Russel Wallace who was a scientist as well as a spiritualist who actually kind of beat Darwin to the punch about evolution. In this theory the author said that even though Wallace was crossed out, ...

Later, Darwin was persuaded to accept the term 'Survival of the Fittest' by his collaborator and fellow traveller, Alfred Russel Wallace, and thought that the term 'avoided the troublesome anthropomorphism of selecting'. ...

... endorsement of his own economic theories. So, he coined the term 'Survival of The Fittest'. Later, Darwin was persuaded to accept the term 'Survival of the Fittest' by his collaborator and fellow traveller, Alfred Russel Wallace, [...]