The Springer journal Theory in Biosciences is publishing a special issue "Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913): The man in the shadow of Charles Darwin" to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Wallace's ...

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 ...

The chirping of cicadas is deafening, my clothes are sticky and heavy with heat and sweat, my right hand is swollen from ant bites, I am panting, almost passing out from exhaustion – and I have a big ...

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 ...

Very scanty acquaintance with practical geology, I’m exceedingly interested in all wider problems with which it deals. Alfred Russel Wallace When Charles R. Darwin published “The Origin of Species” in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dzoodzo Baniwa, a member of an Indigenous community in Brazil’s Amazonas state, has been collecting data on the region’s biodiversity for around 15 years. He lives in a remote village called Canadá on ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Charles Darwin was shocked in 1858 when he received a manuscript describing the idea of evolution ...

The Springer journal Theory in Biosciences is publishing a special issue "Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913): The man in the shadow of Charles Darwin" to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Wallace's ...