Article ID: CBB001320455

What, Where, and When? (2013)

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Alfred Russel Wallace, whose contributions to science we celebrate this year, the 100th anniversary of his death, is probably best known for his role in articulating evolution by natural selection with Charles Darwin in the mid-19th century. But important as that was, it was his unique field-oriented perspective that gave birth to a whole new way of looking at the world. In his two-volume The Geographical Distribution of Animals (1), Wallace broke new ground by setting patterns of distribution in an evolutionary context and insisting on the necessity for comparative data across all of life (see the first figure). He can rightly be hailed as the founder of biogeography, a field that is today more important than ever as concerns mount over the fate of biodiversity.

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Description On Alfred Wallace's field-based study of patterns of geographical species distribution in an evolutionay context.


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Authors & Contributors
Flannery, Michael A.
Vetter, Jeremy
Smith, Charles Hamilton
Costa, James T.
Medina Precioso, Juan Ramón
Raby, Peter
Concepts
Evolution
Natural selection
Biographies
Biogeography
Biology
Spiritualism
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
South America
England
Amazon River Region (South America)
Malay; Malaysia
Southeast Asia
Institutions
Ethnological Society of London
Anthropological Society of London
British Association for the Advancement of Science
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