{"id":2339,"date":"2018-02-23T21:05:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T21:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/seac\/?page_id=2339"},"modified":"2018-03-08T20:48:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T20:48:22","slug":"the-wallace-line","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/resources\/educators\/where-in-southeast-asia\/the-wallace-line\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wallace Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am on the Wallace Line!<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Charles Hirschman<\/p>\n

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The Wallace Line does not actually exist in reality. It is an imaginary line that intersects the Lombok Strait between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok to the south, and extends north through the Makassar Strait between Kalimantan (Borneo) and Sulawesi.<\/p>\n

Alfred Russell Wallace (1823-1913) is probably the most famous person that most people have never heard of.\u00a0 He was a 19th<\/sup>\u00a0century naturalist who, independently of Charles Darwin, \u201cdiscovered\u201d the theory of evolution.\u00a0 Wallace\u2019s hypothesis was based on observations from islands in the Indonesian archipelago.\u00a0 He noted a distinct divide between the fauna of the western islands, with animals largely of Asian origin, and that of the eastern portion where animals were Australasian.\u00a0 Today this dividing line bears his name: the \u201cWallace Line.\u201d\u00a0 From his observations, he began to discern a process of natural selection, as expressed in his autobiography:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe problem then was not only how and why do species change, but how and why do they change into new and well defined species, distinguished from each other in so many ways; why and how they become so exactly adapted to distinct modes of life; and why do all the intermediate grades die out (as geology shows they have died out) and leave only clearly defined and well marked species, genera, and higher groups of animals?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Darwin rushed his book, On the Origin of Species<\/em>, into print in 1859 when he learned that Wallace was about to publish a work with the same ideas, but Wallace was\u00a0never jealous that Darwin received all the credit.\u00a0 The two men corresponded and exchanged scientific papers.<\/p>\n

Although Wallace traveled to South America and other parts of the world, his longest period of fieldwork (eight years) was in the islands of Southeast Asia, where he observed flora and fauna, and collected specimens of insects, butterflies, birds, reptiles, and mammals. His two volume magnum opus\u00a0The Malay Archipelago<\/em>\u00a0was published in 1869 and dedicated to Charles Darwin. The book has been reprinted many times and is even available online (http:\/\/papuaweb.org\/dlib\/bk\/wallace\/cover.html<\/a>).\u00a0 Wallace\u2019s lively prose and detailed description of peoples and places as well of the natural world still speak to contemporary readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am on the Wallace Line! by Charles Hirschman The Wallace Line does not actually exist in reality. It is an imaginary line that intersects the Lombok Strait between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok to the south, and extends north through the Makassar Strait between Kalimantan (Borneo) and Sulawesi. Alfred Russell Wallace (1823-1913)<\/p>\n

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