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Alfred Russel Wallace, (born Jan. 8, 1823, Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales—died Nov. 7, 1913, Broadstone, Dorset, Eng.), British naturalist. Though trained as a surveyor and architect, he became interested in botany and traveled to the Amazon in 1848 to collect specimens.
Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS (Llanbadoc, Monmouthshire, Gales; 8 de enero de 1823-Broadstone, Dorset, Inglaterra; 7 de noviembre de 1913) fue un naturalista, explorador, geógrafo, antropólogo y biólogo británico, conocido por haber propuesto una teoría de evolución a través de la selección natural independiente de la de Charles Darwin que motivó a este a publicar su propia teoría.
Alfred Russel Wallace nel 1895 circa. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 – 1913), scienziato e naturalista britannico.... in natura certi tipi di varietà hanno la tendenza a progredire allontanandosi sempre di più dal tipo originario.
Darwin and Wallace develop similar theory. Wallace in 1902. Image courtesy of the Alfred Russel Wallace Page. Darwin began formulating his theory of natural selection in the late 1830s but he went on working quietly on it for twenty years. He wanted to amass a wealth of evidence before publicly presenting his idea.
For years Alfred Russel Wallace was little more than an obscure adjunct to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Remembered only for prompting Darwin to write On the Origin of Species in 1859 by sending Darwin his own letter proposing a theory of natural selection, Wallace was rightly dubbed by one biographer “the forgotten naturalist.”
Alfred Russel Wallace was born in Kensington Cottage near Usk, Monmouthshire, England (now part of Wales) on the 8th of January 1823 to Thomas Vere Wallace and Mary Ann Wallace ( née Greenell), a downwardly mobile middle-class English couple who had moved there from London a few years earlier in order to reduce their living costs.
Alfred Russel Wallace, Order of Merit, Fellow of the Royal Society (January 8, 1823 – November 7, 1913), was an English (Welsh) naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He independently proposed a theory of natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own more developed and researched theory sooner than he had intended.
