British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823–1913).
Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection; his 1858 paper on the subject was published that year alongside extracts from Charles Darwin's writings on the topic. It spurred Darwin to set aside the "big species book" he was drafting and to quickly write an abstract of it, which was published in 1859 as On the Origin of Species. Wallace did extensive fieldwork, starting in the Amazon River basin. He then did fieldwo
Abbreviations: Wallace
Occupations: zoologist, zoological collector, world traveler, botanical collector, beekeeper, biologist, writer, botanist, naturalist, entomologist, anthropologist, geographer, explorer, mathematician, anti-vaccine activist, ornithologist, scientific collector
Citizenships: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Languages: English
Dates: 1823-01-08T00:00:00Z – 1913-11-07T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Usk
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