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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.
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