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Alfred Russel Wallace, OM , FRS ( January 8 1823 – November 7 1913 ) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He independently proposed a theory of natural selection ("On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart...


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Name: Alfred Russel Wallace
Birth Date: January 8, 1823
Death Date: November 8, 1913
Place of Birth: Monmouthshire, England
Place of Death: Dorset, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: naturalist

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Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin (1809-1882) were the first two significant evolutionists, each discovering natural selection independently of the other, but Darwin receiving most of the credit. Wallace was born into a large, happy,...
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Alfred Russel Wallace was one of the greatest naturalists of all time, second in that regard perhaps only to Charles Darwin. Wallace's early training was as a surveyor and architect, but after 1845 he devoted his long and productive career to the study...
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An influential nineteenth-century naturalist and explorer, Wallace is credited with helping to formulate the principles of biological evolution and natural selection. Wallace was born in 1823 in Monmouthshire, England, the eighth of nine children of a...
 


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1823-1913 English Naturalist, Explorer and Surveyor Alfred Russel Wallace reached the conclusion that natural selection is the mechanism for evolution as did Charles Darwin, making him co-discoverer of the idea in the eyes of most historians. Although...
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Naturalist 1823-1913 Alfred Russel Wallace was born on January 8, 1823, in Usk, Great Britain (Wales). He died at the age of 90 on November 7, 1913. Wallace developed a theory of evolution by natural selection independently of Charles Darwin but at...
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Alfred Russel Wallace OM, FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He did extensive fieldwork first in the Amazon River basin, and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he...


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Peixes Do Rio Negro. Fishes Of The Rio Negro. Alfred Russel Wallace (1850-1852)
02/24/2005: 1,687 words, approx. 6 pages
PEIXES DO RIO NEGRO. FISHES OF THE RIO NEGRO. ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE (1850-1852). Monica de Toledo-Piza Ragazzo (ed.). 2002. Editera da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. ISBN 85-314-0633-1. 517 p. $50.00 (cloth).-The book is a biographical treatment of Alfred Russel Wallace's unpublished journals and...
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The Independent - London
Book review: The natural selection of scientists Tuesday Book Alfred Russel Wallace: a life by Peter Raby (Chatto & Windus, pounds 20.00)
06/05/2001: 681 words, approx. 2 pages
PEOPLE LIKE stories about people, and most histories are full of tales of great individuals who change the world. This is as true of scientific histories as any other, and many scientists are as tempted as lay people by images of towering geniuses who...
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Is Indonesia's Lombok the Next Bali?
6/9/2006: 971 words, approx. 3 pages
As the tropical monsoon clouds roll in, obscuring the towering volcanos along the Bali coastline, the pristine neighboring island of Lombok seems a world away from Indonesia's premier tourist destination. In fact, it almost is. This unique isle...


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