Alfred Russel Wallace
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Meaning
English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled Charles Darwin's (1823-1913)
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A critical examination of Professor Percival Lowell's book "Mars and its canals.", an alternative explanation, by Alfred Russel Wallace, F.R.S., etc. London, Macmillan and co., 1907.
It is indicated that he was an "agnostic Catholic" due to his agreement with Pascal's Wager. citation citation citation citation * Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913): British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.
Lyell and Hooker were instrumental in arranging the peaceful co-publication of the theory of natural selection by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in 1858: each had arrived at the theory independently.
He researched the travels of Charles Darwin and his contemporary (and scientific rival) Alfred Russel Wallace, who amassed the bird specimens in the Tring museum.
When writing his Malayan stories, he consulted Alfred Russel Wallace 's The Malay Archipelago (1869), James Brooke 's journals, and books with titles like Perak and the Malays, My Journal in Malayan Waters, and Life in the Forests of the Far East.