Map of the southern Malay Archipelago showing Alfred Russel Wallace's route for his collecting expedition, along with that of his assistant Charles Allen. From 'The Malay Archipelago' by Alfred Russel Wallace (1874). This work described Wallace's observations that led to his theories on evolution, including the theory of natural selection as a mechanism for the origin of species, which he formulated independently of Charles Darwin.

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