Question

from your textbook - another british naturalist came up with the concept of natural selection as did darwin while working in malaysia - what was the name of this british naturalist?
alfred russel wallace
jean - baptiste lamarck
gaylord g. simpson
robert a. fisher

Explanation:

Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist, independently came up with the concept of natural selection while working in Malaysia around the same time as Darwin. The other options - Jean - Baptiste Lamarck proposed a different theory of evolution (inheritance of acquired characteristics), Gaylord G. Simpson was a paleontologist known for work on evolutionary synthesis, and Robert A. Fisher was a statistician and evolutionary biologist but not associated with co - formulating the concept of natural selection with Darwin.

Answer:

A. Alfred Russel Wallace