Alfred Wallace Is A Good Man

Darwin, an English geologist and naturalist from the 1800’s, is best known for his contributions to science and mainly his theory of evolution. He was the first scientist to develop a believable theory of evolution by

I believe that Charles Foster Kane could’ve been a good person, but ended going down the wrong path. He was given a large sum of money when he became an adult, but in return basically had his childhood stolen from him (Hughes). His mother wanted him to live the rich life instead of in a little town where she was living and to eventually inherit her recently found fortune (Hughes). When he was given this money, he let it take over his life and lost sense of how he should behave. Because of this, I do not personally like Charles Kane due to how he let the money affect his decisions.

Charles Darwin - traveled to Galapagos islands to study the Theory of Evolution that states that states that organisms adapt over time due to their environment

Darwin began to form his ideas when he served as official naturalist on a world voyage on HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836 and spent the rest of his life back in England developing them (Singh 2). When his famous book The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selections was published in 1859, he received a lot of violent reactions. In his book, Darwin challenged the Bible’s account of creation and explained that human beings are descended from an ape-like ancestor (Singh). However, Charles Darwin received backlash from many critics. After Darwin's book was published, he obtained many letters criticizing his idea of evolution due to people's religious beliefs. Darwin wasn't only criticized by the church, but also by scientists. He also received letters from scientists such as Adam Sedgwick and St. George Mivart, rejecting Darwin's natural selection hypothesis. Although he received a lot of backlash for his beliefs, he stayed true to his claims. Other world renowned naturalists such as Alfred Russell Wallace developed similar ideas as Darwin, expanding on evolution. To this day, evolution is still taught in many classes and is a theory that most scientists refer to.

Darwin was the British naturalist who became famous for his theories of evolution and natural selection. Like several scientists before him, Darwin believed all the life on earth evolved over millions of years from a few common ancestors. From 1831 to 1836 Darwin served as naturalist aboard the H.M.S. Beagle on a British science expedition around the world. In South America Darwin found fossils of extinct animals that were similar to modern species. On the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean he noticed many variations among plants and animals of the same general type as those in South America. The expedition visited places around the world, and Darwin studied plants and animals everywhere he went, collecting specimens for further study.

Alfred Russel Wallace was an important figure in biology and made discoveries that forever changed biology. He was an interesting person to learn about and how he came up with the discoveries he made. Some of the things I found interesting about Alfred were his major contribution to science, what inspired him to do the work he did, and what the world knew about this topic at the time Alfred was working on his discoveries.

Alfred Wallace is a priceless historical figure in the scientific community, more so in his own time than today. Wallace’s life was full of unfortunate twists; from illnesses to shipwrecks he had been through it all. However, none of these twists is more unfortunate than how he is remembered by history, or rather, how his has been forgotten by it. Alfred Wallace was one of the first to construct the theory of Natural Selection and how it drives evolution only to be beaten to the punch by Charles Darwin, who is usually credited with the theory. That’s not all Wallace did though; he also drafted maps, collected new species in Malaysia and was quite popular in his own time for these discoveries. Yet despite his struggles and his accomplishments,

Alfred Wallace was one of the first to use the theory of evolution to conclude that the possibility of life on other planets is possible. For life to exist on other planets, there would have to be such perfect conditions to align again, those close to the conditions Earth had when life started. Whewell based his beliefs on astronomy and he believed that humans were unique in nature. Whewell also claimed that since the Earth was special, it was in the center of the universe, the perfect place to sustain life. Whewell claimed that the universe was in fact not infinite and the stars proved why. Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace, the father of zoogeography, was very influential to the field of biogeography. Born in 1823, he spent his life studying the connections between geographic variation between species and the physical features of Earth. Wallace noted the significance between geography and the creation of new species. For example, a species is separated into two groups on opposite side of a mountain range that forms. Over time, both populations evolve so much to their specific habitat that the groups are so dissimilar that they are two different species.

Born February 12, 1809, in Shrewsbury, England to a very open-minded family, Charles Robert Darwin was free to express his ideas. Both of Darwin's grandfathers belonged to the 'Lunar Society': a group of industrialists and Natural Philosophers (BBC), and his grandfather

Aldous Huxley was born to an intelligent family with a long history of credible and influential scientist and biologists in Godalming, England on July 26, 1894. His father, Thomas Henry Huxley, was a noted teacher, biologist, and naturalist who was a supporter and follower of Charles Darwin's work in his theory on evolution. He also assisted in the schooling of the famous writer H. G.Wells. Aldous’ father was a teacher as well as a writer. And his mother, Julia, was a descendant of Matthew Arnold. He was the third son out of four in his family with his two older brothers, Julian and Andrew, both became accomplished biologists. Aldous too want to follow the field of science just like his father before him, yet that wo Later on in life several

Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace like so many of their predecessors made observations of natural phenomena that inspired proposals of how life on earth evolved, unlike others these men formed plausible explanations of how the changes in populations occurred without having any knowledge of Mendelian genetics which was presented in 1868, and provided the micro-mechanism for evolution that Darwin could never explain with his theory of Pangenesis. Rather, based solely on the observations each made over time observing different species of populations around the world, both men were able to pen the ideals that would serve as the foundation of the modern theory of evolution.

passion with animals encouraged him to a Ph.D and travel around the world to study and save the

He loved to be outside and looking at nature and organisms in nature. He loved nature and wouldn’t stop looking at it. He also loved rock, fossils, and plants he collected them. He became friends with professors from Cambridge University, Adam Sedwick and John Henslow. They helped him learn about nature and geology. They were good friends cause they both had the same interest in nature and geology. At this point he knew he was going to stick with geology cause its interesting and his mother taught him how to change the colors of flowers by colored water. Hid dad hasn’t given up on what he wants Darwin to

Through the work of curious minds before them, Darwin’s inspiration working as a naturalist on the HMS Beagle and traveling to the Galapagos Islands, and Wallace’s promptings for publication in 1856,