Alfred Russel Wallace
by American Philosophical Society
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Alfred Russel Wallace
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American Philosophical Society
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Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), British naturalist. Wallace organised expeditions to the Amazon and Malaysia and was the first European to see orang-utans in the wild. He collected many specimens and founded the study of the geographical distribution of animals (biogeography). He formulated (independent of Charles Darwin) the theory of natural selection as a mechanism for the origin of species. He and Darwin presented their results in a joint paper in 1858 before the Linnean Society. Wallace received numerous awards for his work, including the Copley Medal (1908). Wallace was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1908.
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