Alfred Wallace
A)conducted extensive fieldwork in the Amazon River Basin.
B)wrote letters to Darwin and Lyell about patterns in the geographic distribution of species.
C)is known as the "father of biogeography."
D)independently formulated a theory of natural selection.
E)did all of these.

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Alfred Wallace conducted extensive fieldwork in the Amazon River Basin and wrote letters to Darwin and Lyell about patterns in the geographic distribution of species. He is known as the "father of biogeography" and independently formulated a theory of natural selection, which he presented jointly with Darwin in a famous paper in 1858.