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Wallace – Life in Biology – Evolutions forgotten Hero

Alfred Russel Wallace was born on January 8th 1823 in village of Llanbadoc near Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales and died on November 7th 1913 in Broadstone, Dorset, England at the age of 90 years. He was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist but most of all biologist. He was the third of four sons and eighth of nine children of Thomas Vere Wallace and Mary Anne Greenel. He was the discoverer of thousands of new tropical species, the first European to study apes in the wild, a pioneer in ethnography and zoogeography, and author of some of the best books on travel and natural history ever written, including A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro (1853) and The Malay Archipelago (1869). Among his outstanding discoveries is “Wallace’s Line, ” a natural faunal boundary between islands separating Asian animals from those evolved in Australia. Wallace is best known in history of science as founder of biogeography sometimes even called the father of biogeography. What is less known in that he independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection in some views even before Charles Darwin!

Wallace; A.R.; biography; evolutionary theory; natural selection

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