Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection; his 1858 paper on the subject was published that year alongside extracts from Charles Darwin's earlier writings on the topic. It spurred Darwin to set aside the "big species book" he was drafting and quickly write an abstract of it, which was published in 1859 as On the Origin of Species.

Works

A defence of modern spiritualism

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A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro,

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Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected at Singapore and Malacca

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Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection / A Series of Essays

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Darwinism (1889) / An exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications

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Is Mars habitable? A critical examination of Professor Percival Lowell's book "Mars and its canals," with an alternative explanation

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Island Life; Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras

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Man's Place in the Universe / A Study of the Results of Scientific Research in Relation to the Unity or Plurality of Worlds, 3rd Edition

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On the phenomena of variation and geographical distribution as illustrated by the Papilionidæ of the Malayan region

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Palm trees of the Amazon and their uses

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Social Environment and Moral Progress

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The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1 / With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface

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The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2 / With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface

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The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 / The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature

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The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 / The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature

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The Remedy for Unemployment

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Travels on the Amazon

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Tropical nature, and other essays

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Vaccination a Delusion: Its Penal Enforcement a Crime / Proved by the Official Evidence in the Reports of the Royal Commission

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