Alfred Russel Wallace’s legacy: an interdisciplinary conception of evolution in space and time

Abstract

Imagine an undaunted explorer with the scientific intellect of Leonardo Da Vinci, Marie Curie, or Albert Einstein. Someone for whom a life of great adventure (and catastrophic misfortune) went hand in hand with seminal scientific discoveries. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was just such a person in biodiversity science. He was an explorer, prolific collector, co-discoverer of key laws of ecology and evolution such as the principle of natural selection (and perhaps others as we will see below), and the true founder of the vibrant multidisciplinary science of biogeography. He deserves both a central position in the scientific hall of fame, as well as a multi-season series mixing action and intrigue on a streaming platform depicting his long and adventurous life.

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