Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.
Citations
Wallace, Alfred Russel. "On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species." Annals and Magazine of Natural History, vol. 16, no. 93, 1855, p. 184.
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See Heraclitus {436440} for the ancient Greek exposition of this idea.
Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection; his paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin's writings in 1858. This prompted Darwin to publish On the Origin of Species.