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  Alfred Russel Wallace -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Alfred Russel Wallace (January 8 1823 — November 7 1913) was a (The people of Great Britain) British (A biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology)) naturalist, (An expert on geography) geographer, (A social scientist who specializes in anthropology) anthropologist and ((biology) a scientist who studies living organisms) biologist.
Wallace knew that he was interested in the question of how species originate, and trusted his opinion on the matter.
Wallace was the first to propose a (additional info and facts about "geography") "geography" of animal species, and as such is considered one of the and (Dealing with the geographical distribution of animals and plants) biogeography.
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Alfred Russel Wallace (January 8, 1823-November 7, 1913) was a British naturalist and biologist.
Wallace was the first to propose a "geography of animal species, and as such is considered one of the precursor of ecology.
Wallace noted that a line seemed to run through the Malay Archipelago, between Borneo and the Celebes and east of Bali.
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 Encyclopedia: Alfred Russel Wallace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS (January 8, 1823 – November 7, 1913) was a British naturalist, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.
Wallace subsequently became a spiritualist, and later maintained that natural selection cannot account for mathematical, artistic, or musical genius, as well as metaphysical musings, and wit and humor; and that something in "the unseen universe of Spirit" had interceded at least three times in history: 1.
Wallace was the first to propose a "geography" of animal species, and as such is considered one of the precursors of ecology and biogeography.
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 Wallace, Alfred Russel on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Wallace, Alfred Russel.(In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Walllace.
Alfred Russel Wallace's campaign to nationalize land: how Darwin's peer learned from John Stuart Mill and became Henry George's ally.(Special Issue: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Death of Henry George)
A victim of natural selection Alfred Wallace deserves to be as famous as Darwin but instead his reputation is close to extinction, says Kenan Malik
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From his study of comparative biology in Brazil and in the East Indies, he evolved a concept of evolution similar to that of Charles Darwin.
His special contribution to the evidence for evolution was in biogeography; he systematized the science and wrote The Geographical Distribution of Animals (2 vol., 1876) and a supplement, Island Life (1881).
His research in this field is commemorated in the name Wallace's line.
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 Encyclopedia article on Alfred Russel Wallace [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He also believed that the raison d'être of the universe was the development of the human spirit.
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