Alfred Russel Wallace Biography
Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS 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. This prompted Darwin to publish his own ideas in On the Origin of Species. 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". Wallace was one of the leading evolutionary thinkers of the 19th century and made many other contributions to the development of evolutionary theory besides being co-discoverer of natural selection. Source: Wikipedia
Biography Snapshot
- Name:
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Nationality:
- United Kingdom
- Profession:
- Anthropologist, Geographer, Evolutionary Biologist, Biologist, Naturalist, Explorer, Scientist
- Date of Birth:
- January 8, 1823
- Astrological Sign:
- Capricorn
- Date of Death:
- November 7, 1913
- Age at Death:
- 90
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