IN PROFILE
lfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. Besides independently conceiving the idea of evolution through natural selection at around the same time as Charles Darwin, he explored the Amazon river basin and the Malay Archipelago, collecting thousands of specimens which he wrote about in bestselling books such as (1869). Often dubbed ‘the father of biogeography’, he died in Dorset, aged 90.
