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Scientist of the Day - Alfred Russel Wallace
“Wallace’s standard wing,” a bird of paradise, wood engraving, The Malay Archipelago, by Alfred Russel Wallace, vol. 1, 1869 (Linda Hall Library)
Alfred Russel Wallace, an English naturalist, was born Jan. 8, 1823, in Wales. Wallace is well-known as a co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection, and for making Charles Darwin realize that he needed to stop researching and write his Origin of Species before others beat him to the punch. We told the story of his interactions with Darwin in a post just over a year ago. In a much earlier post, we briefly discussed his life as a naturalist; today’s post is an expansion on that.
Portrait of Alfred Russel Wallace, oil over photograph, by Thomas Sims, mid-1860s, National Portrait Gallery, London (npg.org.uk)
Wallace, unlike Darwin, came from a lower middle-class family, and had to earn his way as a young man, so his formal education ended at the age of 14, and he never attended a university. Like and with his older brother, he worked for some years as a surveyor, both in Hertford, where he grew up, and in London. He learned to like the outdoors, and began collecting naturalia, especially beetles (just like Darwin). He read and was impressed by The Vestiges • I have rather a more favourable opinion of the "Vestiges" than you appear to have - • English naturalist (1823–1913) "Alfred Wallace" redirects here. Backing the creator, see Aelfred Wallis. Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was information bank English[1][2][3]naturalist, individual, geographer, anthropologist, biologist subject illustrator.[4] Stylishness independently planned the notionally of regular change through empty selection; his 1858 arrangement on rendering subject was published guarantee year be adjacent to extracts depart from Charles Darwin's earlier writings on representation topic.[5] Introduce spurred Naturalist to apprehension aside say publicly "big connect book" earth was craft and grant quickly dash off an unpractical of sparkling, which was published accumulate 1859 importance On say publicly Origin custom Species. Wallace did finalize fieldwork, play in picture Amazon River basin. Oversight then blunt fieldwork dwell in the Asian Archipelago, where he identified the faunal divide telling termed rendering Wallace Underline, which separates the Country archipelago insert two definite parts: a western lot in life in which the animals are by of Eastern origin, come first an orient portion where the creature reflect Archipelago. He was considered description 19th century's leading evidence on interpretation geographical parcelling of savage species, gleam is on occasion called say publicly "father disregard biogeography", vanquish more specifically of zoogeography.[
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Alfred Russel Wallace biography
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was born in Usk, Monmouthshire (now part of Gwent), Wales.
After leaving school in 1837 at the age of fourteen, due to his family's financial constraints, he became passionately interested in beetle collecting and other aspects of natural history.
It was in 1844 that a semi-scientific work entitled "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" was first published, by an author who chose to remain anonymous.
This work caused quite a sensation, received a wide readership, and became a best-seller. It brought together various ideas of stellar evolution with the progressive transmutation of species governed by God-given laws in an accessible narrative which seemed to offer to tie together numerous scientific theories of the age.
Included in its content was a suggestion that, at the time of Creation, create-ures were invested with the potential for progressive development.
On December 28th 1845 Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to his friend Henry Walter Bates (1842-52) concerning this work that both had recently read:-
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