[Talk] A. R. Wallace: A Great Naturalist in Southeast Asia and How His Story Became Pop Science Myth
NSS Office The Sunflower, 510 Geylang Road #02-05, Singapore, Singapore
Open to the Public Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) and his teams of local assistants collected 125,000 specimens of insects, birds and mammals from 1854-1862. He formulated the ‘Wallace Line’ and a theory of evolution similar to Charles Darwin’s. Their names became forever linked after the publication of Darwin’s epoch-making book Origin of Species (1859)....