As James T. Costa notes in “Radical by Nature,” an expansive and insightful biography, Wallace’s peripatetic youth also brought him to the learning societies known as mechanics’ institutes, which ...

Born 200 years ago, January 8th, 1823, in Wales, United Kingdom, Alfred Russel Wallace was a naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist, and a man of many other talents. Wallace is ...

NHMAIN copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Alan R. Kabat. Sometimes referred to as the "Father of Biogeography," Alfred Russel Wallace has come to be known as the ...

The theory of evolution does not rhyme only with Charles Darwin. The principle of natural selection was co-discovered by another British naturalist: the forgotten Alfred Russel Wallace, who was born ...

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Costa (Darwin’s Backyard), a biology professor at Western Carolina University, gives naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) the biography he deserves in this definitive account. Drawing on newly ...

In 1858, while collecting specimens in the Malay Archipelago, Alfred Russel Wallace sent Charles Darwin a short manuscript detailing the concept of natural selection. The note spurred Darwin to ...

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Language has been an embarrassment for the theory of evolution for more than 150 years. Charles Darwin, who thought that language evolved from animal communication, argued, “The difference in mind ...