Darwin & Wallace
- Alfred Russel Wallace was a scientist who, after conducting his own travels around the world and gathering much evidence, independently developed his own theory of evolution based on the process of natural selection
- He published scientific papers on this theory with Darwin in 1858 (Darwin published his book, On the Origin of Species, the following year
- Wallace is best known for:
- His work studying the warning colouration of species (particularly butterflies) and how this must be an example of a beneficial characteristic that had evolved by natural selection, as the warning colouration helps to deter predators
- Developing the theory of speciation