Famous map of Earth's life updated

Alfred Russel Wallace was one of the 19th century's foremost naturalists, independently describing what became the theory of evolution, for which his contemporary Charles Darwin is more widely known. Like Darwin, Wallace was influenced by the creatures he encountered on his travels around the world. From these travels, he made a map of global biodiversity that revolutionized the way people thought about the variety of life on Earth.

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