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    and philosopher Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist Alfred Wegener (1880–1930)...
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    Robert Gray of the British Museum named this species in honour of Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and author of The Malay Archipelago, who in...
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    Ali Wallace (fl. 1840-1907) was the name used for a Malay from Sarawak, who accompanied and assisted Alfred Russel Wallace in his travels and explorations...
    8 KB (1,066 words) - 09:47, 28 June 2024
  • Alexander Doniphan Wallace (1905–1985) American mathematician Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), British naturalist and biologist Andrew H. Wallace (1926–2008)...
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  • important data to both Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. He played an important role in the formulation of Wallace's theory of aposematism, providing the...
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    Bernstein discovers the Waigeo home of Wilson's bird-of-paradise. Alfred Russel Wallace publishes The Naturalist on the River Amazons Gustav Radde Reisen...
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    Charles Robert Bree (category British ornithologists)
    evidence. Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace criticized Bree for making errors and misconceptions about evolution. Wallace negatively reviewed the book...
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    family Columbidae. The name commemorates the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. It is a rather large, long-tailed fruit dove with a length of 24–28 cm...
    13 KB (1,469 words) - 22:15, 21 December 2023
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    regions of zoology. From 1872, Alfred Russel Wallace developed a system of zoogeographic regions, extending the ornithologist Philip Sclater's system of six...
    15 KB (1,239 words) - 04:21, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coloration evidence for natural selection
    the patterns are otherwise hard to explain. Darwinists such as Alfred Russel Wallace and Edward Bagnall Poulton, and in the 20th century Hugh Cott and...
    23 KB (2,371 words) - 12:48, 11 August 2024
  • Richard Prum (category American ornithologists)
    criticised by Alfred Russel Wallace for asserting "female preferences based on aesthetic considerations". In Rothenberg's words, Wallace "had no place...
    10 KB (740 words) - 09:14, 7 April 2024
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    considered a fundamental scientific concept. In a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace, he introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern...
    164 KB (15,997 words) - 19:10, 16 September 2024
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    1958 New Year Honours, a hundred years after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace announced the theory of evolution by natural selection. In 1956 he received...
    80 KB (10,203 words) - 13:38, 27 August 2024
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    (Henicophaps albifrons) that had been collected by the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace on the island of Waigeo, northwest New Guinea. The genus name combines...
    3 KB (206 words) - 23:53, 12 May 2024
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    Ornithology (redirect from Ornithologist)
    complex "maps" of affinities in works by Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alfred Russel Wallace. A major advance was made by Max Fürbringer in 1888, who established...
    80 KB (9,212 words) - 02:27, 19 August 2024
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    Adolf Bernhard Meyer (category German ornithologists)
    he translated the works of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace into German. Enamoured by Wallace's travelogues, he travelled in the East Indies at...
    7 KB (720 words) - 00:06, 8 September 2023
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    shell-collector Alfred Newton, zoologist and ornithologist. Hugh Strickland, ornithologist William Swainson, ornithologist Alfred Russel Wallace, co-originator...
    10 KB (908 words) - 20:06, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gilolo fantail
    formally described and illustrated in 1865 by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace based on a specimen collected on the summit of the Gamalama volcano...
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    Elliott Coues (category American ornithologists)
    spiritualism and began speculations in Theosophy. He was a friend of Alfred Russel Wallace and they had attended séances with the medium Pierre L. O. A. Keeler...
    14 KB (1,611 words) - 05:58, 11 May 2024
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    Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871) and Alfred Russel Wallace's The Malay Archipelago (1869). It appears that Wallace introduced Wood to Darwin, as in a letter...
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