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Tue 07 Jul 2008An Irishman's Diary
ALFRED Wallace is almost forgotten now. But 150 years ago today, he shared joint billing at a meeting in London for an idea that would change the world.
"The most important idea to occur to a human mind," as it has been called, had occurred independently to two. The other belonged to the man posterity would choose to remember for it: Charles Darwin.
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