But it occurred to me that we really have no contemporary evidence of when Wallace sent the essay to Darwin, only his much later recollection that he sent it by the next post after writing it in ...

Charles Darwin believed sexual selection drove the variation in butterfly colors and patterns of males, while contemporary rival Alfred Russel Wallace disagreed, predicting that broader natural ...

Wallace was still in Malaysia ... If it is true, in the words of Darwin contemporary Victor Hugo, that nothing is so powerful as an idea whose time has come, then perhaps it is also true that ...

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 ...

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.

It’s as crucial to Wallace’s own thinking in disentangling the mechanisms of evolution as the Galàpagos Islands famously were to his contemporary, Charles Darwin. Three years later ...

But Wallace’s reputation was later eclipsed by that of his contemporary Charles Darwin, whose name was given to the theories of evolution they both promulgated. JOHN CRESSWELL of Bournemouth ...

In the field of science, Wallace famously ‘scooped’ Darwin as he independently discovered natural selection — in 1858, Wallace even sent his embryonic theory to Darwin. You might imagine ...

Darwin and fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace predicted the existence of Wallace's sphinx moth from an orchid with an extremely long nectar tube. When you purchase through links on our site ...