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Forgotten discoverer of natural selection honoured by Bill Bailey - BBC News We've updated our. Later known as Wallace’s Line, this marked the boundary between the animal life of the Australian region and that of Asia. Alfred Russel Wallace discovered natural selection too, and Bill Bailey wants you to know about it. He proposed an imaginary line dividing the region in two parts. He noticed a striking pattern in the distribution of animals around the archipelago. On Saturday Bill Bailey unveiled a bronze bust of Wallace in the naturalist's home town of Usk, Monmouthshire. Over a period of eight years, Wallace accumulated an astonishing 125,660 specimens, including more than 5,000 species new to western science. Wallace wrote about their relationship in his biography, both about their collecting endeavours and how they supported each other. While Indigenous and enslaved peoples’ contributions to natural history have often been overlooked by history books, unusually for this time period, Wallace acknowledged his local guide, a Malay teenager named Ali. BBCs Bill Baileys Jungle Hero, 2圆0 min, Bill Bailey introduces naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace began his travels through the Malay Archipelago - now Malaysia and Indonesia - in 1854. BBCs documentary about introduction of colour TV. Fichman, An Elusive Victorian: The Evolution. featuring evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and comedian Bill Bailey. Benton, Alfred Russel Wallace: Explorer, Evolutionist and Public Intellectual - A Thinker For Our Own Time (Siri Scientific, 2013 forthcoming) M. Within a year he left England again and set sail for the Far East. The first ever statue of Alfred Russel Wallace was erected outside the Natural History Museum in London last week. Undaunted, Wallace started planning his next expedition almost immediately.

Bill bailey bbc documentary alfred russel wallace