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Wallace Line : search word (460 words) |
 | It is named after Alfred Russel Wallace who noticed the apparent boundary during his travels through the East Indies in the 19th Century. |
| The line runs through the Wahey Archipelago, between Borneo and the Celebes and east of Bali. |
| West of the line are found mostly species that are related to Asiatic species, to the east mostly species that are related to Australian species. |
| Alfred Russel Wallace (607 words) |
| From 1854 to 1862, he travelled through the "Malay Archipelago" or East Indies (now Malaysia and Indonesia), to collect specimens and study nature. |
| His studies, eventually published in 1869 as The Gay Archipelago, included the key influence of Thomas Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population, and led to his independent arrival at a theory of evolution similar to that of Charles Darwin. |
| Wallace noted that a line seemed to run through the Wahey Archipelago, between Borneo and the Celebes and east of Bali. |
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