ALFRED WALLACE: Excuse me Charles, unbelievable, you seem to have started without me. Always trying to take all the credit for our joint theory of evolution aren't you? CHARLES DARWIN: Keep your ...

By summer 1858, Darwin had written a quarter of a million words on evolution – and published none. Then a letter compelled him to go public. Alfred Russel Wallace was an admirer of Darwin's.

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was a man of many talents - an explorer, collector, naturalist, geographer, anthropologist and political commentator. Most famously, he had the revolutionary idea of ...