Radical by Nature: Celebrating Alfred Russel Wallace at 200

Possibly the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age, Alfred Russel Wallace’s expeditions to remote Amazonia and southeast Asia became the stuff of legend: a collector of thousands of species, he shared in the discovery of natural selection with Darwin and founded the field of evolutionary biogeography. Yet Wallace also courted controversy with non-scientific pursuits from spiritualism to socialism.  Jim Costa marks the bicentennial of his birth with a new biography, Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace, and shares his insights with us on the man who 200 years after his death, continues to inspire.
Dr James T Costa: Executive Director and Professor, Highlands Biological Station, Western Carolina University, USA