Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 1913) is regarded as the co-discoverer
with Darwin of the theory of evolution. It was an essay which
Wallace sent in 1858 to Darwin (whom he greatly admired and to whom
he dedicated his most famous book, The Malay Archipelago) which
impelled Darwin to publish an article on his own long-pondered
theory simultaneously with that of Wallace. As a travelling
naturalist and collector in the Far East and South America, Wallace
already inclined towards the Lamarckian theory of transmutation of
species, and his own researches convinced him of the reality of
evolution. On the publication of On the Origin of Species, Wallace
became one of its most prominent advocates, and Darwinism,
published in 1889, supports the theory and counters many of the
arguments put forward by scientists and others who opposed it.
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