Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.

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• But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Animal