Contributions To The Theory Of Natural Selection A Series Of Essays Second Edition With Corrections And Additions
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Author | : David M. Knight |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780415327398 |
Wallace noticed on expeditions to the Amazon and the Malay archipelego that mammals in Southeast Asia are more advanced than their Australian cousins. His suggestion was that the two continents had split before the better adapted mammals had evolved in Asia. The isolated Australian marsupials were able to thrive, whilst those in Asia were driven to extinction by competition from more advanced mammals. This led to his theory of natural selection, which he presented to the Linnean Society in 1858 with Charles Darwin. This volume reprints those papers presented to the Linnean Society.
Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
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Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1871 |
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Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2019-10-07 |
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ISBN | : 9781698295732 |
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) is regarded as the co-discoverer with Darwin of the theory of evolution. It was an essay which Wallace sent in 1858 to Darwin (to whom he had dedicated his most famous book, The Malay Archipelago) which impelled Darwin to publish an article on his own long-pondered theory simultaneously with that of Wallace. As a travelling naturalist and collector in the Far East and South America, Wallace already inclined towards the Lamarckian theory of transmutation of species, and his own researches convinced him of the reality of evolution. On the publication of On the Origin of Species, Wallace became one of its most prominent advocates. This second, corrected, edition (1871) of a series of essays published in book form in 1870, shows the development of his thinking about evolution, and emphasises his admiration for, and support of, Darwin's work.
Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Natural selection |
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Author | : Wallace Alfred Russel |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2016-06-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781318873982 |
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Author | : Alfred Russel 1823-1913 Wallace |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2021-09-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781015379534 |
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Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3732639789 |
Reproduction of the original: A Series of Essays by Alfred Russel Wallace
Author | : Russel Wallace Alfred |
Publisher | : Double 9 Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789359328461 |
Alfred Russel Wallace's key work "Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection" is a foundational work. Wallace, a prominent naturalist and Charles Darwin's colleague, made vital contributions to the development of natural selection theory, and this collection of writings is a testimony to his trailblazing views. Wallace provides his views into the mechanisms of evolution and natural selection in a series of articles and papers in the book. He explores several elements of evolutionary biology in these essays, such as the concept of adaptive coloration in animals, species distribution, and the function of sexual selection in evolution. The notion of "Wallace's Line," which delineates the boundary between distinct zoogeographical zones in Southeast Asia, is one of Wallace's most important achievements. This concept has aided our knowledge of how species are dispersed over the world. Wallace's work also includes his opinions on human evolution and the probable impact of natural selection on human mental and moral qualities. In this sense, his theories provoked significant discussions and controversies within the scientific world. "Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection" showcases Alfred Russel Wallace's extraordinary intelligence as well as his pivotal role in developing the discipline of evolutionary biology.
Author | : Bernard Quaritch (Firm) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 980 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Antiquarian booksellers |
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Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2017-10-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781976241123 |
I now wish to say a few words on the reasons which have led me to publish this work. The second essay, especially when taken in connection with the first, contains an outline sketch of the theory of the origin of species (by means of what was afterwards termed by Mr. Darwin-"natural selection,") as conceived by me before I had the least notion of the scope and nature of Mr. Darwin's labours. They were published in a way not likely to attract the attention of any but working naturalists, and I feel sure that many who have heard of them, have never had the opportunity of ascertaining how much or how little they really contain. It therefore happens, that, while some writers give me more credit than I deserve, others may very naturally class me with Dr. Wells and Mr. Patrick Matthew, who, as Mr. Darwin has shown in the historical sketch given in the 4th and 5th Editions of the "Origin of Species," certainly propounded the fundamental principle of "natural selection" before himself, but who made no further use of that principle, and failed to see its wide and immensely important applications. The present work will, I venture to think, prove, that I both saw at the time the value and scope of the law which I had discovered, and have since been able to apply it to some purpose in a few original lines of investigation. But here my claims cease. I have felt all my life, and I still feel, the most sincere satisfaction that Mr.