# Alfred Russel Wallace (@alfred-russel-wallace)

Alfred Russel Wallace was a naturalist and biogeographer. Wallace independently formulated a theory of natural selection and sent his 1858 essay to Charles Darwin; their ideas were presented jointly at the Linnean Society.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Alfred Russel Wallace's public record._

## Topics

- [A Complex Thinker](/@alfred-russel-wallace/a-complex-thinker.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Natural Selection](/@alfred-russel-wallace/natural-selection.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Wallace's Line](/@alfred-russel-wallace/wallace-s-line.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.linnean.org/the-society/history-of-science/alfred-russel-wallace
- blog: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/who-was-alfred-russel-wallace.html
- blog: https://wallacefund.myspecies.info/content/biography-wallace

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "alfred-russel-wallace", "question": "…"}`.