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After a variety of zoological discoveries Wallace proposed a theory of evolution, which matched Darwin's unpublished ...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 ...

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 ...

When the theory of evolution was put forth by Alfred Wallace and Charles Darwin in 1859, biological science was in its embryonic stage. Naturalists (the precursors of biologists) had been content ...

Headlines about evolution can give you whiplash ... The short answer is that Darwin’s theory is a mishmash of multiple logically separate ideas. To avoid confusion, those independent notions ...

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

Without an understanding of the origin of species we cannot understand biological evolution – the light which illuminates genes, the biomedical sciences and much of our existence. The modern story ...

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 ...