Completing Wallace's journey

• Published in: Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 367; no. 6474; pp. 140 - 141
• Main Authors: Kennedy, Jonathan D., Fjeldså, Jon
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States The American Association for the Advancement of Science 10.01.2020
• Subjects: Animals; Archipelagoes; Biodiversity; Biological Evolution; Birds; Environmental impact; Expeditions; Geographic Location; Geographical locations; New species; Phylogeny; Species extinction

A global inventory of species diversity is critical for understanding the evolution of life on Earth British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace developed the theory of evolution as a consequence of the taxonomic discoveries made during his expeditions across the Indonesian archipelago in the 19th cent...