If you haven't had enough of Wallace and Darwin yet, head on over to the Beagle Project Blog where there is a guest post by George Beccaloni that summarizes Wallace's involvement in the events that ...

In March of 1858, a Welsh naturalist by the name of Alfred Russel Wallace was in the Malay Archipelago when he had a sudden realization that "there is a general principle in nature which will cause ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: Next year, 2009, will be the big one for Charles Darwin. 200 years since his birth and ...

The horticulturist who came up with the concept of 'evolution by natural selection' 27 years before Charles Darwin did should be more widely acknowledged for his contribution, states a new paper by a ...

Alfred Russel Wallace biographer Peter Raby of the University of Cambridge talks about the great naturalist and co-creator of the theory of evolution by natural selection on the 100th anniversary of ...

Darwin's hawkmoth (Xanthopan morgani praedicta) on flower, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar. Xanthopan morganii praedicta, Madagascan sphinx moth. While Darwin predicted that the orchid ...

The theory of evolution does not rhyme only with Charles Darwin. The principle of natural selection was co-discovered by another British naturalist: the forgotten Alfred Russel Wallace, who was born ...

John Thompson, the Jean H. Langenheim Professor of Plant Ecology and Evolution at UC Santa Cruz, has been honored by the Linnean Society of London with the Darwin-Wallace Medal, one of the top ...

New evidence is casting doubt on the popular belief that Charles Darwin may have borrowed some ideas from naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace when developing his theory of evolution by natural selection.

The College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) will host its annual celebration of International Darwin Day Thursday, Feb. 15, in F. Franklin Moon Library on the ESF campus. The event will ...