YESTERDAY I met someone who had never heard of Alfred Russel Wallace. They were as amazed by my enthusiasm for a long-dead collector of beetles, butterflies and birds as I was by their admission ...

Alfred Russel Wallace was countercultural enough to want to shake society economically. But he was traditional enough to remain centered, humble, and grateful for whatever glory he did receive.

The story has a surprising beginning. On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin's controversial magnum opus, was actually prompted by a letter to the English naturalist by Alfred Russel Wallace ...

Mr. Shermer chronicles the life and research of eminent scientist Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-discoverer, with Charles Darwin, of natural selection. Credits Larry Mantle Host, AirTalk Austin Cross ...

Their authors: Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. In another year, Charles Darwin would publish “ The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection,” squarely positioning him as the ...

Author Michael Shermer talked about his book [In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace], published by Oxford University Press. He discussed the life and accomplishments of ...

This is by the sculptor Albert Bruce-Joy and was erected in 1915. The inscription reads: ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE 1823-1913 Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in Usk, South Wales, one of many children ...

This year is Wallace Year, for it marks the centennial of the death of Alfred Russel Wallace. In 1857 he wrote to Charles Darwin, pre-empting his idea of natural selection, and Darwin, a true ...

Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator, was a contemporary of Charles Darwin, and also worked on the debates within ...

THE name of Alfred Russel Wallace is rightly held in honour as that of one who with few advantages of birth or education made for himself a distinguished position as naturalist and traveller, and ...

The Springer journal Theory in Biosciences is publishing a special issue "Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913): The man in the shadow of Charles Darwin" to commemorate the 100th anniversary of ...