Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
Alternate names: Alfred Russell Wallace; Alfred Russel 1823-1913 Wallace; Alfred R. Wallace; Alfred RUSSEL WALLACE; Wallace Alfred Russel; Alfred R Wallace; Alfred Russel 1823-1913 N. Wallace; Alfred Russell 1823-1913 Wallace
Born: 8 January 1823
Died: 7 November 1913
Bio: Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection; his paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin's writings in 1858. Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the faunal divide now termed the Wallace Line, which separates the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts: a western portion in which the animals are largely of Asian origin, and an eastern portion where the fauna reflect Australasia. He was considered the 19th century's leading expert on the geographical distribution of animal species and is sometimes called the "father of biogeography" - wikipedia