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The Alfred Russel Wallace reader : a selection of writings from the field / edited by Jane R. Camerini.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913.
- Series:
- Center books in natural history
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. 2002
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913.
- Wallace, Alfred Russel.
- Natural selection.
- Biogeography.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 219 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Pioneering naturalist and evolutionist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) has long been overshadowed by his contemporaries Charles Darwin and Thomas H. Huxley. His scientific contributions, however, remain considerable. Independent of Darwin, Wallace developed a theory of evolution through natural selection, which ultimately spurred Darwin to complete and publish On the Origin of Species. He also discovered Wallace's Line, the boundary line separating the Asian and Australian zoological regions, and his studies of the distribution of plants and animals pioneered an evolutionary approach to global and island biogeography. The Alfred Russel Wallace Reader introduces Wallace's searching intelligence and lively insights to a general readership. For this collection, editor Jane R. Camerini has selected writings that reveal Wallace's superb skills as a field biologist and travel writer. They display his roving interests in a diverse array of subjects, from evolution to spiritualism, and focus on his scientific expeditions in Wales, the Amazon, and the Malaysia Archipelago.
- Contents:
- 1 Wales 18
- Wallace Begins Surveying 23
- Enclosing Common Land 28
- Wallace Discovers Botany in Wales 29
- The South-Wales Farmer 34
- At Neath 54
- 2 The Amazon 61
- On the Rio Negro 67
- Sinking of the Helen 86
- On the Monkeys of the Amazon 98
- 3 The Malay Archipelago 103
- Collecting Birds of Paradise 112
- On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type 142
- 4 The World 152
- Limits of Natural Selection in Human Evolution 160
- Spiritualism and Human Evolution 163
- Impressions of the United States 188
- Remembrances of Alfred Russel Wallace by His Children William G. and Violet Wallace 195.
- Notes:
- "Books by Alfred Russel Wallace": pages 209-210.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-213) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801867819
- 0801867894
- OCLC:
- 45804777
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