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The other beetle-hunter

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  • Andrew Berry

    (Andrew Berry is lecturer on biology at Harvard University, Biology Laboratories, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA, and is editor of an annotated anthology of Wallace's writings, Infinite Tropics.)

  • Janet Browne

    (Janet Browne is Aramont professor of the history of science, Harvard University, Science Center 371, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. She is the author of a two-volume biography of Darwin and of Darwin's “Origin of Species”: A Biography.)

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Thanks to a fateful letter, the theory of evolution by natural selection was unveiled 150 years ago this week. Andrew Berry and Janet Browne celebrate the letter's writer, Alfred Russel Wallace.

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  • Andrew Berry & Janet Browne, 2008. "The other beetle-hunter," Nature, Nature, vol. 453(7199), pages 1188-1190, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:453:y:2008:i:7199:d:10.1038_4531188a
    DOI: 10.1038/4531188a
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