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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 93. Chapters: Ouida, Alfred Russel Wallace, Sting, Billy Bragg, Morrissey, Damon Albarn, Mark Thomas, William Cobbett, Annie Besant, Thom Yorke, Stella McCartney, Roger Yates, Lindsay Cooper, Elizabeth Fry, Sid Rawle, James Parkinson, Fuzz, Leila Deen, Julia Ormond, Greg Avery, Corin Redgrave, Richard Carlile, Paul Patrick, Mary McCartney, Lauren Booth, Joe Mitty, Allen Carr, Rose Hacker, Francis Place, Clare Solomon, Antony Grey, Jane Tomlinson, Hayley Okines, Bill Travers, John Hopkins, George Greenwood, Suw Charman-Anderson, Jill Craigie, Nahum Sokolow, Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, Ophelia Dahl, Rowland Detrosier, Andy Park, Nina Fishman, Maurice Margarot, Margery Fry, George William Foote, William Wood, Keith Porteous Wood, Enid Hattersley, Jill Robinson, Angela Singer, Barbara Smoker, Rhaune Laslett, Georgiana Buller, Catherine Heseltine, Thomas Jonathan Wooler, Jessie Boucherett, Ian Saville, Ken Hargreaves, Simon Festing, Peter McGovern, Joseph Hiam Levy, Louisa Twining, Katherine Chidley, Thomas Hardy, Daniel Isaac Eaton, Louise Samuel, David John Douglass, Thomas Boddington, Eglantyne Louisa Jebb, John Shuttleworth, Mike Knowles. Excerpt: Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS (8 January 1823 - 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He is best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory. Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the Wallace Line that divides the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts, one in which animals closely related to those of Australia are common, and one in which the species are largely of Asian origin. He was considered the 19th century's leading expert on the geograph...
