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Alfred Russel Wallace (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.
The Malay Archipelago is a book by the English naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace which chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight-year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, Singapore, the islands of Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and the island of New Guinea.
Wood was born in the London borough of Marylebone in June 1839. [1] He became a zoological illustrator, well known in the nineteenth century for his many engravings for major works of natural history including Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871) [2] and Alfred Russel Wallace's The Malay Archipelago (1869).
Lenoir died on April 29, 1967, in Urbana, Illinois, at the age 38, of injuries he had suffered in a car crash three weeks earlier. [11] John Mayall paid tribute to the fallen bluesman with the songs "I'm Gonna Fight for You, J. B." and "The Death of J. B. Lenoir", [12] though in both songs, Mayall mispronounces Lenoir's name as / l ɛ n ˈ w ɑːr /.
Pages in category "Works by Alfred Russel Wallace" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. I.
VCD-47225 Music from Alfred Hitchcock Films - John Williams / Dimitri Tiomkin / Franz Waxman / Roy Webb, Charles Ketchum, conductor & the Utah Symphony Orchestra VCD-47226 The World, the Flesh and the Devil / New England Concerto / Because of Him / Spellbound Concerto - Miklós Rózsa / Elmer Bernstein conductor featuring Dorothy Jonas & Joshua ...
Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection with Some of Its Applications is an 1889 book on evolution by Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection together with Charles Darwin. This was a book Wallace wrote as a defensive response to the scientific critics of natural selection. [1]
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 ...