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
Alfred Russel Wallace
×CloseBritish naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823-1913)
Born | 8 January 1823 |
Died | 7 November 1913 |
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Alfred Russel Wallace
×CloseBritish naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823-1913)
Born | 8 January 1823 |
Died | 7 November 1913 |
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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, LanguagesPlaces
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 AmericaPeople
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 centuryID Numbers
- OLID: OL154978A
- ISNI: 0000000110221630
- VIAF: 19767134
- Wikidata: Q160627
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q160627
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- 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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