On July 1, 1858, at a meeting of the Linnean Society of London, two papers on natural selection were presented jointly on ...

Albert Einstein might be the daddy of all eggheads. But as his famous theory of special relativity turns 120, we tip our hats ...

He was best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection. His paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin's writings in 1858.

A moth neglected by experts for a century is found to have been collected by Alfred Russel Wallace 169 years ago Cutting-edge techniques allowed scientists to show the moth as belonging to a genus ...

A rather uninspiring specimen in the Natural History Museum’s collection has an extraordinary tale to tell. Researchers have discovered that a neglected moth was originally collected almost 170 years ...

Darwin and fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace developed the theory of evolution in the mid-1800s. Evolution works thanks to a process called natural selection.

Charles Darwin said sexual selection drove male butterfly looks, while rival Alfred Russel Wallace believed it was just natural selection. Now we have an answer.

However what many people don't know is that a Welshman named Alfred Russel Wallace had the revolutionary idea of evolution by natural selection - entirely independently of Darwin.

Alfred Russel Wallace, the evolutionary theorist often billed as the “co-discoverer” of natural selection, began life quite differently from his wealthier and more famous counterpart Charles ...

This is where, in February 1855, naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace wrote his hugely influential “sarawak law” paper . It's as crucial to Wallace's own thinking in disentangling the mechanisms ...