Historical FigureMale
Alfred Russel Wallace
1823 – 1913
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryAlfred Russel Wallace was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and illustrator. He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection; his 1858 paper on the subject was published that year alongside extracts from Charles Darwin's writings on the topic. It spurred Darwin to set aside the "big species book" he was drafting and to quickly write an abstract of it, which was published in 1859 as On the Origin of Species.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
January 8, 1823
Usk
Date of death
November 7, 1913
Broadstone
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Occupations & fields
mathematicianexploreranthropologistzoologistnaturalistanti-vaccine activist
Awards & honours
Fellow of the Royal SocietyOrder of MeritCopley MedalRoyal MedalFounder’s MedalDarwin Medal
Notable works
Land Nationalisation Society
- Field and occupation
- britský biológ
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