<P> Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS ( 8 January 1823 -- 7 November 1913 ) was a British naturalist , explorer , geographer , anthropologist , and biologist . He is 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 . This prompted Darwin to publish his own ideas in On the Origin of Species . Wallace did extensive fieldwork , first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago , where he identified the faunal divide now termed the Wallace Line , which separates the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts : a western portion in which the animals are largely of Asian origin , and an eastern portion where the fauna reflect Australasia . </P>
<P> Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS ( 8 January 1823 -- 7 November 1913 ) was a British naturalist , explorer , geographer , anthropologist , and biologist . He is 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 . This prompted Darwin to publish his own ideas in On the Origin of Species . Wallace did extensive fieldwork , first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago , where he identified the faunal divide now termed the Wallace Line , which separates the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts : a western portion in which the animals are largely of Asian origin , and an eastern portion where the fauna reflect Australasia . </P>
who is the scientist credited with the discovery of natural selection
who is the scientist credited with the discovery of natural selection
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace