In the 19th century, Alfred Russel Wallace (famous for coming up with his own theory of evolution by natural selection, independent of Charles Darwin) was wandering through the Malay Archipelago with ...

Officially mapped in 1863, but in effect for millions of years, Wallace's Line has maintained two distinct animal kingdoms on either side. Stand on the shores of Bali and look east. Across the water ...

Understanding history helps us make sense of the present and even make predictions for the future. It’s not just historians who study history, but scientists as well. As climate change shifts the ...

While bullets and cannonballs were flying back and forth across the Mason Dixon line in 1862, Alfred Russel Wallace was wrapping up eight years of adventure studying and collecting biological ...

Like his friendly rival and fellow biologist Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace travelled the world collecting and studying species that were new to science. His legacy is the Wallace Line, a ...

The Wallace Line marks a sharp biological divide between Asian and Australasian species, despite islands being just miles apart. Alfred Russel Wallace identified the boundary in 1859 after observing ...