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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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British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823-1913)

Born 8 January 1823
Died 7 November 1913

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  • Cover of: Alfred Russel Wallace; letters and reminiscences.

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  • Cover of: Bad times: an essay on the present depression of trade, tracing it to its sources in enormous foreign loans, excessive war expenditure, the increase of speculation and of millionaires, and the depopulation of the rural districts; with suggested remedies.

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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 wellbeing of the people ; with appendix on the nationalisation of house property

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British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823-1913)

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

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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)

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19th century, 20th 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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January 13, 2025 Edited by raybb Edited without comment.
April 22, 2024 Edited by MARC Bot move website to links
June 3, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import