Alfred Russel Wallace — natural selection, socialism, and spiritualism

Alfred Russel Wallace, who died 100 years ago, on November 7 1913, is most often remembered as a kind of ‘Darwin satellite’: the other discoverer of evolution by natural selection. He was, however, a scientific superstar in his own right. In this feature, Andrew Berry examines Wallace’s life. In the following three pieces, Wallace scholar James Costa, Darwin biographer Janet Browne and literary critic James Wood look at different aspects of Wallace’s complex legacy. Alfred Russel Wallace — natural selection, socialism, and spiritualism