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In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals ...

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The five cells are silky-white within, and are filled with a mass of firm, cream-coloured pulp, cont...

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I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, e...

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To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look...

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Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received un...

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I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and de...

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Alfred Russel Wallace

Naturalist

Born: 1823-01-08

Died: 1913-11-07

Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS (January 8 1823 – November 7 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He independently proposed a theory of natural selection ("On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type") which prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own more developed and researched theory sooner than he had intended. Wallace is sometimes called the "father of biogeography".More