His contemporary Samuel Taylor Coleridge mocked ... Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, and it set both Darwin and Wallace on career paths that would converge in that fateful 1858 mail ...

Most famously, he had the revolutionary idea of evolution by natural selection entirely independently of Charles Darwin. Wallace was born in 1823 in Usk - now in Monmouthshire. After leaving school he ...

ALFRED WALLACE: Excuse me Charles, unbelievable, you seem to have started without me. Always trying to take all the credit for our joint theory of evolution aren't you? CHARLES DARWIN: Keep your ...

The Wallace Line was first identified by Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist and contemporary of Charles Darwin. In ...

By summer 1858, Darwin had written a quarter of a million words on evolution – and published none. Then a letter compelled him to go public. Alfred Russel Wallace was an admirer of Darwin's.