Wallace, achitevera basa rapfuura raDe Candolle, Humboldt naDarwin, akaita mipiro mikuru ku zoogeography. Nekuda kwekufarira kwake mu transmutation hypothesis, akaisa pfungwa yake pakugoverwa kwenzvimbo yemarudzi akabatana zvakanyanya panguva yebasa rake remunda kutanga muSouth America uyezve muMalay archipelago. Paaive mu archipelago akacherekedza mutsetse waWallace, uyo unopfuura neSpice Islands uchiparadzanisa mhuka dzezvitsuwa pakati penzvimbo yeAsia nenzvimbo yeNew Guinea / yeAustralia. Mubvunzo wake wakakosha, wekuti nei mhuka dzezvitsuwa zvine mamiriro ekunze akafanana dzichifanira kunge dzakasiyana, unogona kungotariswa nekwakabva. Muna 1876 akanyora The Geographical Distribution of Animals, yaive iro basa rakajairwa kweanopfuura hafu yezana ramakore, uye kuenderera mberi, Hupenyu Island, muna 1880 yakanangana nechitsuwa icho. Akawedzera kutarisisa kwakakosha pakugoverwa kwenzvimbo yemarudzi akabatana nemarudzi panguva yekushanda kwake mumunda kutanga muSouth America uyezve muMalawi archipelago.
Ernst Haeckel