Alfred Russel Wallace

Few today know the name Alfred Russel Wallace, yet he wrote an article proposing the theory of natural selection in 1858, a year before Charles Darwin published The Origin of

CNN.com 2010

In other letters, the naturalist admitted to colleagues such as Alfred Russel Wallace or Ernst Haeckel that spontaneous generation was important to the coherence of the theory.

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

Not fully accepted by Darwin himself, it led the biologist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace – acknowledged by Darwin as the co-discoverer of natural selection – to become a convert to spiritualism.

John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality 2011

It's Alfred Russel Wallace who discovered natural selection simultaneously with Darwin, but became increasingly mystical recycled.

Victor Stenger: Contingency or Convergence? Victor Stenger 2011

Some 30 years later Alfred Russel Wallace, the British naturalist, watched in a trance as three years' worth of notes from his travels in Brazil burned in a ship's cargo fire, forcing him to recreate his impressions from memory.

Spiral-Bound and Spellbound Jennie Erin Smith 2011

It's Alfred Russel Wallace who discovered natural selection simultaneously with Darwin, but became increasingly mystical recycled.

Victor Stenger: Contingency or Convergence? Victor Stenger 2011

The theory of evolution by natural selection has two founders – Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.

Alfred Russel Wallace by Tim Flannery 2011

It's Alfred Russel Wallace who discovered natural selection simultaneously with Darwin, but became increasingly mystical recycled.

Victor Stenger: Contingency or Convergence? Victor Stenger 2011

For a sustained dose of inspiration toward that end, a would-be naturalist can fill a Kindle with enough 99-cent natural-history classics—by Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Alexander von Humboldt—to last years.

Gift Guide: Best of Science Jennie Erin Smith 2011

It's Alfred Russel Wallace who discovered natural selection simultaneously with Darwin, but became increasingly mystical recycled.

Victor Stenger: Contingency or Convergence? Victor Stenger 2011