In this free 1-hour webinar, Dr James Costa and George Beccaloni dig into the parallel journeys that led Charles Darwin and ...

As James T. Costa notes in “Radical by Nature,” an expansive and insightful biography, Wallace’s peripatetic youth also brought him to the learning societies known as mechanics’ institutes, which ...

Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist renowned for co-developing the theory of evolution alongside Charles Darwin—and for mapping out the biodiversity of the Indonesian Archipelago. However, ...

In 1858, while collecting specimens in the Malay Archipelago, Alfred Russel Wallace sent Charles Darwin a short manuscript detailing the concept of natural selection. The note spurred Darwin to ...

Born 200 years ago, January 8th, 1823, in Wales, United Kingdom, Alfred Russel Wallace was a naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist, and a man of many other talents. Wallace is ...

The theory of evolution does not rhyme only with Charles Darwin. The principle of natural selection was co-discovered by another British naturalist: the forgotten Alfred Russel Wallace, who was born ...

NHMAIN copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Alan R. Kabat. Sometimes referred to as the "Father of Biogeography," Alfred Russel Wallace has come to be known as the ...

Pioneering AI-powered research on butterflies has probed the under-studied evolution of females and adds to a debate between the founding fathers of evolution. The University of Essex study—published ...

Streaming platforms for The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace haven’t been announced yet. Check back soon for updates on where you can watch it online.

Costa (Darwin’s Backyard), a biology professor at Western Carolina University, gives naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) the biography he deserves in this definitive account. Drawing on newly ...

Language has been an embarrassment for the theory of evolution for more than 150 years. Charles Darwin, who thought that language evolved from animal communication, argued, “The difference in mind ...