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Alfred Russel Wallace died 100 years ago, just shy of his 91st birthday. Wallace is best known for discovering the theory evolution by natural selection during his biological explorations of Southeast Asia and then co-publishing the idea, under unusual circumstances, with Charles Darwin in 1858. He is also, these days, famous for being not famous: the other thing everyone knows about Wallace is that he has been overlooked by posterity. Wallace fans in particular object to the way that their man has been relegated to footnotes in textbooks while Darwin becomes ever more prominent in the public sphere as both thinker and icon.