Alfred Russel Wallace (In Our Time)
1858 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of Alfred Russel Wallace, a pioneer of evolutionary theory. Born in 1823, Wallace travelled extensively, charting the distribution of animal species throughout the world. This fieldwork in the Amazon and later the Malay Archipelago led him to formulate a theory of evolution through natural selection.
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Around 1858
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Crimean War (1853)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)