Wallace

Japanese: ウォーレス

British naturalist. From 1854 he studied the distribution of organisms in the Malay Archipelago, proposing a biological boundary that he later named the Wallace Line. In 1858, while he was in the archipelago, he independently arrived at the theory of evolution based on the theory of natural selection. This paper was presented at the Linnean Society together with Darwin's paper, and became the basis for establishing the theory of evolution. His major works include The Malay Archipelago (1869) and Darwinism (1889), among others.

Wallace

A Scottish patriotic hero of the Middle Ages. He assisted John Balliol, King of Scotland, in his resistance against Edward I of England, and in 1297 defeated the English army at Stirling, for which he was knighted by John. He advanced as far as the north of England at one point, but was defeated by Edward I at Falkirk and fled to France. He was captured on his return and executed in London.

Wallace

American politician. He was an expert on agricultural policy, and served as Secretary of Agriculture (1933-1940) and Vice President (1941-1945) in the administration of F. Roosevelt, promoting the New Deal. He advocated pro-Soviet foreign policy, and in 1948 he left the Democratic Party to form the Progressive Party and ran for president, but was defeated.
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Wallace

American author. He was an army officer, mayor of New Mexico, and minister to Turkey. He wrote many popular novels, including Ben-Hur (1880) and The White God (1873), a story about the Spanish conquest of Mexico. His autobiography (1906) was completed by his widow.

Wallace

A popular British author. He published 150 books over a period of 27 years, starting with the mystery novel The Four Just Men (1905), which depicts four protagonists who punish evildoers one after another. He also wrote plays and film screenplays.

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英国の博物学者。1854年よりマレー諸島で生物の分布を研究し，のちにウォーレス線と命名された生物境界線を提唱。また同諸島滞在中の1858年C.ダーウィンとは独立に自然淘汰説に基づく進化論に到達。この論文はリンネ学会でダーウィンの論文と一緒に発表され，進化論確立の基礎となった。主著は《マレー諸島》（1869年），《ダーウィニズム》（1889年）ほか。

ウォーレス

中世スコットランドの愛国者英雄。イングランド王エドワード１世に抵抗するスコットランド王ジョン・ベイリオルを助け，1297年イングランド軍をスターリングで敗り，ジョンからナイト爵を授けられる。一時はイングランド北部まで進出したが，エドワード１世にフォーカークで敗れてフランスに亡命。帰国後捕らえられてロンドンで処刑された。