When, in 1858, Wallace sent the older man a manuscript describing his theory of evolution ... strategies.) Darwin himself made a stab at drawing a "tree of life," a diagram that traces the ...

After a variety of zoological discoveries Wallace proposed a theory of evolution, which matched Darwin's unpublished ... classed as different species. The diagram illustrates what could happen ...

The neo-Darwinist attachment to Natural Selection has arrested the development of science for too long.

As well as agonising over whether to speak out, he had to decide how to treat Wallace fairly. Darwin finally went public with his groundbreaking theory of evolution by natural selection ...

With Wallace's prompting ... I have not been hasty in coming to a decision." Darwin saw his 500-page book as "one long argument" for the theory of natural selection. "It may be said that natural ...

Leafing through the mail at his home outside London one June day 150 years ago, Charles Darwin came across an envelope sent from an island in what is now part of Indonesia. The writer was a young ...

Darwinian thinking has been challenged many times, starting with co-discoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace, ...

Darwin, Wallace and the other 19th century naturalists ... fits elegantly into Darwin's theory as another major influence on dispersal, helping to produce the patterns in the distribution of ...

Letter sent to Charles Darwin by Alfred Russel Wallace. On advice from friends, the two scientists organised a joint announcement. Their theory of evolution by natural selection was presented at the ...

From that time on, Darwin overshadowed Wallace and it has usually been his name alone associated with the theory of evolution by natural selection. Wallace expressed no resentment at this - in fact he ...

HE spent his formative years studying at the University of Edinburgh before publishing his ground-breaking work which changed the accepted wisdom about how species evolved. Now, the full personal ...