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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Natural selection, Natural history, Description and travel, Ethnology, Evolution, Science, Spiritualism, Zoology, Vaccination, Botany, Life, Miracles, Travel, Biogeography, Biological Evolution, Civilization, Geographical distribution, History, Indians of South America, Islands, Land tenure, Nationalization of Land, Wallace, alfred russel, 1823-1913, Depressions, Evolution (Biology)Places
Great Britain, Amazon River Valley, Brazil, Malay Archipelago, Tropics, Amazon Valley, Asia, Australia, Malaysia, Mars (Planet), New Zealand, Rio Negro (Amazonas, Brazil)People
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), Charles Darwin (1809-1882), Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916), Percival Lowell, Percival Lowell (1855-1916)ID Numbers
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- Alfred Russell Wallace
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- Alfred R. Wallace
- Alfred RUSSEL WALLACE
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- Alfred Russel 1823-1913 N. Wallace
- Alfred Russell 1823-1913 Wallace
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