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Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection; his paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin's writings in 1858. Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the faunal divide now termed the Wallace Line, which separates the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts: a western portion in which the animals are largely of Asian origin, and an eastern portion where the fauna reflect Australasia. He was considered the 19th century's leading expert on the geographical distribution of animal species and is sometimes called the "father of biogeography" - wikipedia

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Born 8 January 1823
Died 7 November 1913

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  • Cover of: The Malay Archipelago: the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise : a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature

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  • Cover of: A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro: with an account of the native tribes, and observations on the climate, geology, and natural history of the Amazon Valley.

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  • Cover of: Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates

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  • Cover of: Darwinism: an exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications.

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  • Cover of: Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes: Being Records of Travel on the Amazon and Its Tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga and Pastasa

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  • Cover of: Man's place in the universe: a study of the results of scientific research in relation to the unity or plurality of worlds

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  • Cover of: The wonderful century: the age of new ideas in science and invention.

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  • Cover of: Social environment and moral progress

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  • Cover of: My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions; Volume 2

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  • Cover of: The Malay Archipelago, the Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise: A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature

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  • Cover of: Contributions to the theory of natural selection.: A series of essays.

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  • Cover of: Natural selection and tropical nature: essays on descriptive and theoretical biology

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  • Cover of: Miracles and modern spiritualism

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  • Cover of: The world of life: a manifestation of creative power, directive mind and ultimate purpose

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  • Cover of: Land nationalisation: its necessity and its aims : being a comparison of the system of landlord and tenant with that of occupying ownership in their influence on the well-being of the people

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Born 8 January 1823
Died 7 November 1913

Subjects

Natural selection, Natural history, Description and travel, Evolution, Ethnology, Science, Spiritualism, Travel, Nationalization of Land, Zoology, Paleontology, Wallace, alfred russel, 1823-1913, Zoogeography, Evolution (Biology), Land tenure, Vaccination, Biogeography, Glacial epoch, History, Indians of South America, Malay archipelago, Miracles, Natural history, malay archipelago, Botany, Languages

Places

Great Britain, Malay Archipelago, Amazon River Valley, Brazil, Australasia, Oceania, Tropics, Amazon Valley, England, Malaysia, Amazon River, Amérique du Sud, Asia, Australia, Brésil, Canada, Earth, East Indies, Indonesia, Malaya, Mars (Planet), New Zealand, Rio Negro (Amazonas), Rio Negro (Amazonas, Brazil), South America

People

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), Charles Darwin (1809-1882), Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916), CHARLES DARWIN (1809-1882), John Hampden (d. 1891), Percival Lowell, Percival Lowell (1855-1916), William Benjamin Carpenter (1813-1885)

Time

19th century

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Alternative names

  • Alfred Russell Wallace
  • Alfred Russel 1823-1913 Wallace
  • Alfred R. Wallace
  • Alfred RUSSEL WALLACE
  • Wallace Alfred Russel
  • Alfred R Wallace
  • Alfred Russel 1823-1913 N. Wallace
  • Alfred Russell 1823-1913 Wallace

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