Alfred Russel Wallace

...half-century before Darwin released his Origin, and he was pushed into publication himself only by the arrival on his desk in 1858 of Alfred Wallace's crystal-clear explanation of evolution by natural selection. Thus, whatever merits we...

In this article: Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, God, Darwinism, Lucretius, Robert Grant, Erasmus Darwin, Alfred Wallace, HMS Beagle, and Descent of Man

...and urged Heggestad to see what was inside. "He described it as belonging to Alfred Russel Wallace and I of course had never heard of Alfred Russel Wallace," says Heggestad. Nonetheless, he bought the cabinet on a payment plan: $100 a...

In this article: Adobe Flash Player, Charles Darwin, David Grimaldi, American Museum of Natural History, Arlington, and New York

...15 years from his early insights on the subject to the publication of the book -- and publishing it then only after naturalist Alfred Wallace had independently come up with the idea of evolution. Darwin struggled with the book, which...

In this article: Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Evolution, God, Alfred Wallace, CNN, United States, E mail, and Origin of Species

...an increasing number of new species. 5. Natural selection: The process of evolutionary change, co-discovered by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, operates in the following manner: A. Populations tend to increase indefinitely in a...

In this article: On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin, Ernst Mayr, Richard Dawkins, Harvard, The Selfish Gene, and Oxford

...simply treating evolution as the philosophical phenomenon that it is, it's fair to call Darwin's idea (which was also Alfred Russel Wallace's) the most powerful idea humanity has ever had. And that's worth a tip of the hat. The full title...

In this article: Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, Esquire, Al Davis, Jon Gruden, and The Raiders

...Endersby. "It was the fact that there was so much detail, so much evidence." Watch a video of how Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace developed the theory of evolution from separate corners of the globe. (Kathleen Masterson/Joe...

In this article: Charles Darwin, God, On the Origin of Species, Controversy, Cambridge University, Church of England, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, and England

Charles Darwin was one of the real Good Guys in history. It's true that he published the Origin after he found out that Alfred Russell Wallace also had the same idea. It was the thing that pushed him to finally publish, after decades of sitting...

In this article: Charles Darwin, God, The Origin of the Species, Emma Darwin, Alfred Russell Wallace, Meanie, Leap of faith, and National Book Award

...festival. If Darwin had chickened out in 1859 and decided to put his dusty manuscript back in the drawer, allowing Alfred Russel Wallace to take the fame, and the flack, the genre of science fiction that we take for granted probably would...

In this article: Planet of the Apes, Alien, London, Academy award, On the Origin of Species, HR Giger, and Edgar Rice Burroughs

...Florida. This initiative depended crucially on vastly increased scientific knowledge, most notably the work of Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, who explained the diversity of wildlife by showing how all animals adapt to their environment,...

In this article: William Hornaday, Passenger Pigeon, Charles Darwin, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Habitat destruction, John James Audubon, and University of Chicago Press

...focus on the intertwining stories of three 19th century naturalists and field biologists: Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates. Wallace and Bates, much more well-known in their time than now, traveled to the Amazon on their...

In this article: Sean B. Carroll, Charles Darwin, Transylvania University, Origin of Species, Henry Walter Bates, National Book Awards, and University of Wisconsin-Madison