Eight Extraordinary Years of Scientific Travel: Alfred Russel Wallace's Malay Archipelago (2014)

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Public Lecture with Andrew Berry, Lecturer on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Alfred Russel Wallace, who co-discovered the theory of evolution by natural selection with Charles Darwin, was a remarkable scientist-explorer. His eight years of travel in Southeast Asia (1854-1862) greatly influenced his scientific thinking and resulted in the discovery of thousands of new species, as well as a wonderful account of his journeys, The Malay Archipelago. To celebrate the release of a new edition of this classic work, Andrew Berry will tell Wallace's extraordinary story, discussing how the book originated and how it shaped future generations of scientific exploration.

Recorded on November 8, 2014