Alfred Russel Wallace
(1823-1913)
English naturalist and biologist
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Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. 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. This prompted Darwin to publish On the Origin of Species.
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8 January 1823 Usk, Monmouthshire, England
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7 November 1913 (aged 90) Broadstone, Dorset, England, United Kingdom
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| Zodiac | Capricorn |
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