Wallace100: Wallace's legacy to biogeography and conservation biology

This year marks the hundredth anniversary since the death of Alfred Russel Wallace, one of the world’s greatest naturalists and co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Wallace was also a pioneer of biogeography, the study of species distributions through space and time. Humans play a major role in shaping the distributions of species, a fact well understood by Wallace, but not widely appreciated by many of his contemporaries. This month's Wallace lecture, presented by Dr Tom Fayle from Imperial College, explores the impact of Wallace's ideas on the disciplines of biogeography and conservation biology. Free but ticketed, visit www.nhm.ac.uk/wallace100

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