Both Wallace and Darwin traveled extensively and were struck by the strong patterns they observed in the geographic distribution of nature's diversity.Which of the following observations were made by Wallace?
A)Highly similar species are clustered in time and space.
B)Inheritance is a particulate rather than a blending process.
C)Geographic features seem to play an important role in the clustering of similar, closely related species.
D)A and C

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Wallace observed that highly similar species are clustered in time and space, and that geographic features seem to play an important role in the clustering of similar, closely related species. He did not make any observations regarding the particulate nature of inheritance, which was a key concept in Darwinian evolution. Therefore, choices A, B, and C are incorrect individually, and the correct answer is D.

Both Wallace and Darwin Traveled Extensively and Were Struck by the Strong