“Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.”

— Alfred Russel Wallace

"On the Law which has Regulated the Introduction of New Species" (1855).

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British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist an… 1823–1913

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