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History - Bates and
Wallace
The two most important studies of natural
history were done by two English scientists, Henry Bates and
Alfred Wallace. They went together into the Amazon in 1848 before
they split to go their seperate ways within Amazonia.
Bates spent 11 years and discovered over 14,712 different species,
8,000 of them new to science. Wallace studied for four years
and the species he found led him to develop a theory on evolution
through natural selection much like Charles Darwin in the Galapagos.
In 1858, Darwin and Wallace both delivered papers on to the Linnean
Society in London. |