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EPISODE · Jul 18, 2026 · 16 MIN

Darwin vs. Wallace: The Forgotten Co-Discoverer of Evolution

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While Darwin became a household name, his contemporary Alfred Russel Wallace independently discovered evolution by natural selection—and lit the fire that forced Darwin to finally publish. We explore how two men on opposite sides of the world reached the same revolutionary conclusion, and why history remembers only one of them.

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