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Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace 1823-1913, English naturalist. 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 . Like Darwin, he was greatly influenced by the writings of Malthus and Lyell and based his theories ... Read more
Wallace's line
Wallace's line imaginary line postulated by A. R. Wallace as the dividing line between Asian and Australian fauna in the Malay Archipelago. It passes between Bali and Lombok islands and between Borneo and Sulawesi, then continues S of the Philippines and N of the Hawaiian Islands. ... Read more
Sir Richard Wallace
Sir Richard Wallace 1818-90, English art collector. The illegitimate son of the marquess of Hertford, he inherited in 1871 his father's superb collection of continental art, which he had helped to build. Wallace, created baronet in 1871, was a member of Parliament (1873-85). Lady Wallace bequeathed... Read more
Blind Harry
Blind Harry or Henry the Minstrel, fl. late 15th cent., supposed Scottish poet. He is considered the author of the patriotic epic, The Wallace, which celebrates the life of Sir William Wallace. Violently anti-English, the poem was popular in Scotland down to the 18th cent. Since the skillful ... Read more
Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallace (Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace), 1875-1932, English novelist and playwright, b. Greenwich. He was the author of more than 150 detective and adventure novels, of which as many as 5 million were sold in a year. The Terror (1930), which is typical of his work, still ranks high as a thr... Read more
Sir William Wallace
Sir William Wallace 1272?-1305, Scottish soldier and national hero. The first historical record of Wallace's activities concerns the burning of Lanark by Wallace and 30 men in May, 1297, and the slaying of the English sheriff, one of those whom Edward I of England had installed in his attempt to ... Read more
Henry Agard Wallace
Henry Agard Wallace 1888-1965, vice president of the United States (1941-45), b. Adair co., Iowa. He was (1910-24) associate editor of Wallaces' Farmer, an influential agricultural periodical run by his family, and when his father, Henry Cantwell Wallace , died in 1924, he became editor. Henry A... Read more
Lew Wallace
Lew Wallace (Lewis Wallace), 1827-1905, American novelist and diplomat, b. Brookville, Ind. He served in both the Mexican and Civil wars. After returning to his law practice in Indiana, he became governor of the Territory of New Mexico (1878-81) and minister to Turkey (1881-85). His famous book, B... Read more
Henry Wallace
Henry Wallace 1836-1916, American agricultural leader, b. West Newton, Pa., grad. Jefferson (later Washington and Jefferson) College, 1859. He studied (1861-63) theology and went (1863) to Iowa as a home missionary of the United Presbyterian Church. He later turned to farming, pioneering in several... Read more
George Corley Wallace
George Corley Wallace 1919-98, governor of Alabama (1963-67, 1971-79, 1983-87), b. Clio, Ala. Admitted to the bar in 1942, he was active in the Alabama Democratic party, serving in the state assembly (1947-53) and as a district court judge (1953-59). In 1962 he won election as governor as an avowed... Read more

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Wallace, Alfred Russel
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823–1913) English naturalist and evolutionist. Wallace developed a theory of natural selection independently of (but...
Selection, Levels of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...selection, Alfred Russel Wallace, who, as a...position like Wallace's, endorsing...implicitly by most evolutionists. Then a strong...introduced by British evolutionist William Hamilton...a number of evolutionists have produced...

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evolutionist; Alfred Russel Wallace, largely unknown outside scientific circles, wrote a seminal paper on the theory of evolution around the same time as Charles Darwin.(FRONT)
Newspaper article from: The Record (Kitchener, Ontario); 7/4/2009; 700+ words ; ...long-gone thatched hut, that Alfred Russel Wallace is believed to have spent weeks...amateur historians are rediscovering Wallace. Their efforts are raising debate over exactly what Wallace contributed to the theory of evolution...
evolutionist; Alfred Russel Wallace, largely unknown outside scientific circles, wrote a seminal paper on the theory of evolution around the same time as Charles Darwin.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Guelph Mercury (Guelph, Ontario); 7/4/2009; 700+ words ; ...long-gone thatched hut, that Alfred Russel Wallace is believed to have spent weeks...amateur historians are rediscovering Wallace. Their efforts are raising debate over exactly what Wallace contributed to the theory of evolution...
What's it all about, Alfred?
Magazine article from: Natural History; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; Historians rediscover the quirky genius of evolutionist Alfred Russel Wallace. A contentious correspondent once characterized Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) as an enthusiast. By...
Absurd websites provide no proof ; Are evolutionists "terrified" by creationists?
Newspaper article from: Express & Echo (Exeter UK); 9/30/2008; 675 words ; Are evolutionists "terrified" by creationists? In...discovered the way it operated. So did Alfred Russel Wallace, working far away in the Dutch East...26, which imagined "terrified" evolutionists being in fear of creationism "proving...
Forgotten evolutionist lives in Darwin's shadow
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 6/29/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...long-gone thatched hut, that Alfred Russel Wallace is believed to have spent weeks...amateur historians are rediscovering Wallace. Their efforts are raising debate over exactly what Wallace contributed to the theory of evolution...
Charles Darwin's Letters: A Selection 1825-1859
Magazine article from: Natural History; 5/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...1858, when he felt the young evolutionist Alfred Russel Wallace nipping at his heels. Darwin...Lyell, had warned him that Wallace was independently developing...more striking coincidence: if Wallace had my M.S. sketch written...
What Was It Like to Sail on an 18th Century Square-Rigger? 'Extreme History' Takes You There.
News Wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service; 1/28/2002; 700+ words ; ...writer Georg Forster might have come up with theories about cultural relativism in the South Seas, or the evolutionist Alfred Russel Wallace with theories about the continental separation between Asia and Australia. It's as though the islands...
Sailors for science
Magazine article from: Natural History; 11/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Hooker aboard the Erebus, Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry W Bates on the...botanist Joseph Hooker, evolutionist and biogeographer Alfred Russel Wallace, South America traveler...travelers. We glimpse Wallace raising a baby orangutan...
Books: The male nipple - and other mysteries of evolution A Reason for Everything: Natural selection and the English imagination By Marek Kohn FABER pounds 20 pounds 18 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 1/9/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...England, by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. In this book Marek Kohn goes...appeared between them when Wallace declared that natural selection...adaptationism's dark side. Many evolutionists, like Wallace and Richard Dawkins, have...
"Darwin's moon".
Magazine article from: Whole Earth; 9/22/2002; 700+ words ; Alfred Russel Wallace A Life Peter Raby 2001; 340 pp...University Press Infinite Tropics An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology Andrew Berry, ed. 2002...Wallace was a classic fox. This evolutionist was also a socialist and spiritualist...