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 chirping of cicadas is deafening, my clothes are sticky and heavy with heat and sweat, my right hand is swollen from ant bites, I am panting, almost passing out from exhaustion — and I have a big ...

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 ...

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, ...

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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, ...

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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, ...

This Research in Action article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. "This is why I have the best job in the world," exclaimed Cynthia Sagers, a program ...

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 ...