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Alfred Russel Wallace And Charles Darwin: Similar Theories Of Evolution

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Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. Alfred Wallace and Charles Darwin both developed similar theories of evolution. Wallace explored the wildlife of South America and Asia, and supplied Darwin with birds for his studies. Both of them examined different species of wildlife from different areas of the world, and both developed a very similar theory of evolution.

In 1835, Wallace went on an 8-year expedition to the Malay Archipelago. There he studied many different species of wildlife, such as birdwing butterflies, monkeys, orangutans, and many more. Wallace had a fascination with butterflies. He noticed that birdwing butterflies are found throughout the Malay Archipelago, but
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