Tag Archives: Alfred Russel Wallace

Top: A photograph of Charles Darwin from around 1870. Bottom: An 1845 drawing by the ornithologist John Gould illustrating the variety of finch beaks encountered by Darwin during his travels through the Galápagos Islands in 1835.
1858-1859: Unveiling the Secrets of Evolution – The Theory of Natural Selection

Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace independently formulated the theory of natural selection, explaining how traits contribute to survival and reproduction, shaping species over time. Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" popularized this theory, now [...]