Wallace (Walter) Atwood

Geographer, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He studied at the University of Chicago (1897), and became deeply influenced by Rollin D Salisbury. He taught at Chicago and Harvard, then assumed the presidency of Clark University (1920–46). He travelled on every continent and wrote much, especially in the area of physical geography.

Wallace Walter Atwood (1872 – 1949) was an American geographer and geologist.

Wallace Walter Atwood main contribution was his idea of Global Species Consolidation. The second stage is Differentiation, which is an adaptation to the physical environment and also the creation of a new culture and language. The third stage is Contact, in which different cultures come into contact for the first time and interact. Warfare and trade change the face of many cultures by forcing them into another language or set of customs. The last stage is Consolidation, which means wide scale political and economic interaction between cultures.