Alfred Russel Wallace
- born: January 8th, 1823
- British naturalist
- explorer
- geographer
- anthropologist
- biologist
- seventh child out of nine children
- parents: thomas wallace and mary greenell
- best known for conceiving theory of evolution independently through natural selection
- was one of the leading evolutionary thinkers of the 19th century
- had financial difficulties throughout much of his life
- sailed to south america
- formulated the same theory as darwin
- his boat sank on return trip with all his evidence
- presented his theory with darwin to have the theory credited to darwin since darwin had all the evidence
- died: november 7th, 1913 at the age of 90