Alfred Russel Wallace, the evolutionary theorist often billed as the “co-discoverer” of natural selection, began life quite differently from his wealthier and more famous counterpart Charles Darwin.

THE name of Alfred Russel Wallace is rightly held in honour as that of one who with few advantages of birth or education made for himself a distinguished position as naturalist and traveller, and who, ...

The Springer journal Theory in Biosciences is publishing a special issue "Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913): The man in the shadow of Charles Darwin" to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Wallace's ...

Let us pity the young, white, and well-behaved Alfred Russell Wallace. Science is a brutally competitive arena of politics and egos. But not little Alfred. He was in awe of Darwin's wide range of ...

ALTHOUGH Alfred Russel Wallace published a detailed autobiography, a welcome must be given to this book of letters and reminiscences, which contains fresh and interesting information regarding one of ...

An over a century-long mystery has been surrounding the Taiwanese butterfly fauna ever since the 'father of zoogeography' Alfred Russel Wallace described a new species of butterfly: Lycaena nisa, ...

Darwin's competitor for proving a theory of natural selection was stuck in the Spice Islands, malarial and enjoying a less hulking reputation than his colleague did. In Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life, ...

John van Wyhe does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The theory of evolution does not rhyme only with Charles Darwin. The principle of natural selection was co-discovered by another British naturalist: the forgotten Alfred Russel Wallace, who was born ...

In 1856, while hiking through the woods in Borneo, the English naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace saw some movement in the trees. On a quest to hunt great apes, he didn’t waste time. The female ...

The naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) has for many years been standing in the shadow of his more famed co-discoverer of the principle of natural selection, Charles Darwin. Despite outward ...

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