In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the Spice Islands, wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection.
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A year later, with Wallace still on the opposite side of the globe, Darwin published On the Origin of Species .
Within two weeks, his outline and Wallace\'s paper were presented jointly in London.
Darwin was aghast--his work of decades was about to be scooped.
In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the Spice Islands, wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection