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One of the five individuals I chose was Alfred Russel Wallace because he had the most influence over Darwin's development of his theory of Natural Selection. Alfred Russel Wallace had a positive influence because he was a co-discoverer of the theory although Darwin has gotten most of the credit.
The contribution that Alfred made to the scientific community was that his important ideas about Natural Selection during on eight-year expedition. Alfred collected more than one hundred thousand insects, birds and animal species, which he gave to the British museums.
"If the environment changes, the traits, that are helpful or adaptive to that environment will be different." This point was directly affected by Alfred Russel Wallace's work. The Wallace effect noticing how certain species of plants and animals adapt to their environment and avoid hybrid mating, which means they would have a greater reproduction success rate.
Darwin couldn't have developed his theory of natural selection without the influence and ideas of Alfred Russel Wallace because they both conjoined their theories together in 1858. Both Darwin and Wallace theories created the theory of natural selection and without the work of Wallace being seen by Darwin he may have never been convinced enough to publish his own work.
The attitude of the church affected Darwin and the publication of his book because he knew the affect it would have on them and the anger and frustration about the theory of evolution. Back in these days, they believed in the bible and god's word and they didn't believed Darwin's theories and talked bad about them. Darwin was discouraged, but then he got confident with the work he did with Wallace and he pushed to get forward regardless of the outcome.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Russel-Wallace
The contribution that Alfred made to the scientific community was that his important ideas about Natural Selection during on eight-year expedition. Alfred collected more than one hundred thousand insects, birds and animal species, which he gave to the British museums.
"If the environment changes, the traits, that are helpful or adaptive to that environment will be different." This point was directly affected by Alfred Russel Wallace's work. The Wallace effect noticing how certain species of plants and animals adapt to their environment and avoid hybrid mating, which means they would have a greater reproduction success rate.
Darwin couldn't have developed his theory of natural selection without the influence and ideas of Alfred Russel Wallace because they both conjoined their theories together in 1858. Both Darwin and Wallace theories created the theory of natural selection and without the work of Wallace being seen by Darwin he may have never been convinced enough to publish his own work.
The attitude of the church affected Darwin and the publication of his book because he knew the affect it would have on them and the anger and frustration about the theory of evolution. Back in these days, they believed in the bible and god's word and they didn't believed Darwin's theories and talked bad about them. Darwin was discouraged, but then he got confident with the work he did with Wallace and he pushed to get forward regardless of the outcome.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Russel-Wallace
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