During his long career Alfred Russel Wallace wrote more than four hundred articles and reviews as well as more than twenty-five books and is best remembered for his biological and ethnological investigations. Like Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, and...

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,...

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...

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...

The English naturalist and traveler Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), independently of Darwin, discerned the mechanism of evolution by natural selection. Alfred Russel Wallace, the eighth of nine children, was born on Jan. 8, 1823, at Usk,...