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Nature 400, 489 (5 August 1999) | doi:10.1038/22826

Wallace rescued from a grave injustice

Natasha Loder

A group has been set up to raise funds to restore the neglected grave (right) of Alfred Russel Wallace, who discovered evolution by natural selection independently of Charles Darwin.Darwin was buried in Westminster Abbey in London, alongside royalty and figures such as Isaac Newton, and is remembered as one of the world's greatest scientists.