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Alfred Wallace was a naturalist from

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Britain

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Spain

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Dutch East Indies

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Greece

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The correct option is A Britain
Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection; his paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin's writings in 1858. Hence, Alfred Wallace was a naturalist from Britain.
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