Alfred Russel Wallace, the evolutionary theorist often billed as the “co-discoverer” of natural selection, began life quite differently from his wealthier and more famous counterpart Charles Darwin.

Larry Mantle talks with KPCC science expert and founder and publisher of Skeptic magazine Michael Shermer about his new book In Darwin’s Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace (Oxford ...

The Springer journal Theory in Biosciences is publishing a special issue "Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913): The man in the shadow of Charles Darwin" to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Wallace's ...

A historical bee collection from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History has been newly researched and photographed.

Born 200 years ago, January 8th, 1823, in Wales, United Kingdom, Alfred Russel Wallace was a naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist, and a man of many other talents. Wallace is ...

An over a century-long mystery has been surrounding the Taiwanese butterfly fauna ever since the 'father of zoogeography' Alfred Russel Wallace described a new species of butterfly: Lycaena nisa, ...

Let us pity the young, white, and well-behaved Alfred Russell Wallace. Science is a brutally competitive arena of politics and egos. But not little Alfred. He was in awe of Darwin's wide range of ...

The theory of evolution does not rhyme only with Charles Darwin. The principle of natural selection was co-discovered by another British naturalist: the forgotten Alfred Russel Wallace, who was born ...

ALTHOUGH Alfred Russel Wallace published a detailed autobiography, a welcome must be given to this book of letters and reminiscences, which contains fresh and interesting information regarding one of ...

The antique-hunter's fantasy is to discover something extraordinary, sitting unnoticed in the corner of a shop. That fantasy came true for a lawyer who, 30 years ago, stumbled on a rosewood cabinet ...

The world’s largest bee is a solitary insect known from a small cluster of islands in eastern Indonesia. Wallace’s giant bee, Megachile pluto, has dra.

This is the hundredth anniversary of the death of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), a founder, with Charles Darwin, of evolutionary biology. The museum is marking the occasion with a free program on ...