Wallace, Sclater and the biogeographic distribution models
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Alfred Russel Wallace, Philip Lutley Sclater, Biogeography, 19th centuryAbstract
Since the beginning of his career as a naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was interested in the origin of species and the geographic distribution of animals and plants. However, he was not the only one interested in the subject at that time. The English zoologist Philip Lutley Sclater (1829-1913) proposed a geographic model to explain birds' distribution. This article aims to discuss Sclater’s proposal within the context of the biogeography of his time, seeking to point out the evidence he based on and what he added to the knowledge of the subject. Besides, it will try to detect which features of Sclater’s proposal were accepted by Wallace. This study concluded that although Wallace defended and relied on Sclater’s biogeographic distribution model to explain the geographic distribution of other classes of animals besides birds, but he did not deny the inherent problems. He mentioned cases that did not follow the Sclater proposal, pointing out groups of animals that did not fit Sclater’s model.
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