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Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) after a photograph by Elliott & Fry, 1903; 1923; Author: attributed to John William Beaufort (1864-1943) Credit/Provider:
English: Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 – 1913), British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. Best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection, with Charles Darwin.
Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was an English [1] [2] [3] naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. [4] 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.
On Saturday 14 September 2002, a green Thurrock Heritage plaque on the building was unveiled by Wallace's grandson Richard to commemorate Wallace's role in developing the theory of natural selection. [1] In April 2013, the house was offered for sale at £1.5m and in 2015 the price was lowered to £700,000.
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Statue in bronze of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) by Anthony Smith. He is looking up at a bronze model of a Wallace's golden birdwing butterfly ( Ornithoptera croesus ). The statue was commissioned by the Wallace Memorial Fund and was given to the Natural History Museum, London, where it was unveiled by Sir David Attenborough on ...
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