Tiny Indonesia Islands To Honor British Naturalist

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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia’s remote Moluccas islands plans to build a museum and an observatory in honor of British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who in the 19th century spent many years in the area doing pioneering field work. Wallace was a leading expert on the geographical distribution of animal species and proposed a theory of natural selection around the same time his better known compatriot Charles Darwin published his famous theory in “On The Origin of Species.”