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Alfred Russel Wallace
1823–1913
Best known for independently conceiving evolution by natural selection, this tireless explorer helped change how the natural world was understood. His travels in the Amazon and the Malay Archipelago also made him a founding figure in biogeography.
22 Audiobooks
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Darwinism (1889) An exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Vaccination a Delusion: Its Penal Enforcement a Crime Proved by the Official Evidence in the Reports of the Royal Commission
by Alfred Russel Wallace
The Remedy for Unemployment
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Travels on the Amazon
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Is Mars habitable? A critical examination of Professor Percival Lowell's book "Mars and its canals," with an alternative explanation
by Alfred Russel Wallace
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
by Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant
Island Life; Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras
by Alfred Russel Wallace
A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, : with an account of the native tribes, and observations on the climate, geology, and natural history of the Amazon valley
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Uit den Indischen Archipel De Aarde en haar volken, Jaargang 1875
by Alfred Russel Wallace
The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Man's Place in the Universe A Study of the Results of Scientific Research in Relation to the Unity or Plurality of Worlds, 3rd Edition
by Alfred Russel Wallace
The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Social Environment and Moral Progress
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Palm trees of the Amazon and their uses
by Alfred Russel Wallace
A defence of modern spiritualism
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected at Singapore and Malacca
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2
by Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant
Tropical nature, and other essays
by Alfred Russel Wallace
About the author
Born in 1823, Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, and writer whose name is closely linked with the history of evolution. In 1858, while working in the Malay Archipelago, he outlined the idea of natural selection in a paper that was presented alongside Charles Darwin's work, helping to push one of science's biggest debates into the open.
Wallace spent years collecting specimens and observing wildlife in South America and Southeast Asia. Those journeys shaped not only his thinking about evolution but also his lasting contributions to biogeography, including the famous "Wallace Line," which highlighted a striking divide between animal life in Asia and Australasia.
He was a wider-ranging thinker than many readers realize. Alongside his scientific writing, Wallace wrote on social issues and remained an active public intellectual well into old age. He died in 1913, leaving a legacy that reaches far beyond his often-mentioned connection to Darwin.