The neglected giant: Alfred Russel Wallace

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Zhang Jian, Wang Zhiheng, Che Jing, Wang Yanping, Ma Keping. The neglected giant: Alfred Russel Wallace[J]. Biodiv Sci, 2023, 31(12): 23500.

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Fig. 1 The first pages of the original and translated papers on natural selection published by Darwin and Wallace in 1858, as well as photographs and signatures of Wallace in the book Darwinism, published in 1889. The Chinese version was translated by Lou Xue and Deduo Wu, published in Ke Xue, Vol. 35, No. 4, 1959.

Fig. 2 Two publications of Wallace pioneered the field of biogeography, i.e. The Malay Archipelago in 1869 and The Geographical Distribution of Animals in 1876.

Fig. 3 Several books by Wallace demonstrated the unity of science and humanity, such as Man's Place in the Universe (1904), and Is Mars Habitable (1907)

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