Abstract
Wallace discovered independently the principle of natural selection which he and Charles Darwin co-published in 1858. Wallace’s speciality was zoogeography, consonant with his early work as a surveyor and his later on land policy. ‘Wallace’s Line’ through the Makassar Straits dividing Indo-Malayan from Austro-Malayan fauna is an enduring, if modified monument. His Geographical Distribution of Animals (1876) has dominated the field.
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Gaffney, M. (2018). Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823–1913). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1688
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