Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8 January 1823 in Usk. A British naturalist, explorer and geographer, Wallace independently conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection, at the same time as Charles Darwin. Working as a collector of specimens in the Amazon and then in the Malay Archipelago, he wrote an essay in 1858 that he sent to Darwin, which prompted the joint presentation of their ideas to the Linnean Society. He is regarded as the father of biogeography, and identified a boundary between the fauna of Asia and Australasia known as the Wallace Line. His books include The Malay Archipelago. He was also interested in spiritualism, social reform and land nationalization.
Before and after
- 1823Publication of Der er et yndigt land
- 1823Hymn to Liberty
- 1823Origins of rugby union
- 1823Discovery of silicon
- 8 January 1823Birth of Alfred Russel Wallace
- from 31 August 1823 to 29 September 1833Ominous Decade
- 1824Founding of National Gallery
- 1824Founding of University of Manchester
- 1824Joseph Fourier describes the greenhouse effect
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