How Did Alfred Wallace Contribute To Biology

The biologist I chose to research is Alfred Wallace. He was born on January 8, 1823 in Llanbadoc, United Kingdom. Unfortunately Wallace died on November 7th 1913. There was no really cause of his death it is said that he just died of natural causes. Alfred Wallace was buried in a small cemetery in a town called Broadstone, Dorset that is located in England (Wikipedia). In the following paragraph I will be talking about the kind of work that Wallace worked on throughout his lifetime. Alfred Wallace became more of a public figure in England in the 19th Century. One thing that he worked on throughout his life is his formulation on the theory of evolution by natural selection. Wallace had a lot of interests from either socialism to spiritualism, to being interested in island biogeography to even life on Mars. To go into what basically started up his biologist career is his work in being a surveyor for his oldest brother William. For around 8 to 10 years Alfred surveyed and mapped in Bedfordshire and then he continued to Wales. In 1844

The biggest thing that he was known for was that he co discovered the theory of evolution by natural selection with Charles Darwin. According to Darwin’s biography, it said while he was in bed sick he thought about Thomas Malthu’s idea of positive checks on human population growth. Since this thought he came up with the idea of what is called natural selection. To go into his relationship with Charles Darwin, he had once briefly met Darwin, and was one of the correspondents whose observations Darwin used to support his own theories. Alfred trusted Darwin’s opinion and he so he sent him his February 1858 in hopes he would pass it on to Charles Lyell. Other biologists have noted that Wallace appeared to gave envisioned natural selection as a kind of feedback mechanism keeping species and varieties adapted to their environment