The Journal of the Linnean Society
Author | : Linnean Society of London |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Zoology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Linnean Society of London |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Zoology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2016-05-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1473362571 |
This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1859 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'On the Zoological Geography of the Malay Archipelago' is an article detailing Wallace's observations during his travels in Asia. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of Llanbadoc, in Monmouthshire, Wales. Wallace was inspired by the travelling naturalists of the day and decided to begin his exploration career collecting specimens in the Amazon rainforest. He explored the Rio Negra for four years, making notes on the peoples and languages he encountered as well as the geography, flora, and fauna. While travelling, Wallace refined his thoughts about evolution and in 1858 he outlined his theory of natural selection in an article he sent to Charles Darwin. Wallace made a huge contribution to the natural sciences and he will continue to be remembered as one of the key figures in the development of evolutionary theory.
Author | : Edward O. Wilson |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0801899737 |
One of the earliest New World naturalists, José Celestino Mutis began his professional life as a physician in Spain and ended it as a scientist and natural philosopher in modern-day Colombia. Drawing on new translations of Mutis's nearly forgotten writings, this fascinating story of scientific adventure in eighteenth-century South America retrieves Mutis's contributions from obscurity. In 1760, the 28-year-old Mutis—newly appointed as the personal physician of the Viceroy of the New Kingdom of Granada—embarked on a 48-year exploration of the natural world of northern South America. His thirst for knowledge led Mutis to study the region's flora, become a professor of mathematics, construct the first astronomical observatory in the Western Hemisphere, and amass one of the largest scientific libraries in the world. He translated Newton's writings and penned essays about Copernicus; lectured extensively on astronomy, geography, and meteorology; and eventually became a priest. But, as two-time Pulitzer Prize–winner Edward O. Wilson and Spanish natural history scholar José M. Gómez Durán reveal in this enjoyable and illustrative account, one of Mutis's most magnificent accomplishments involved ants. Acting at the urging of Carl Linnaeus—the father of taxonomy—shortly after he arrived in the New Kingdom of Granada, Mutis began studying the ants that swarmed everywhere. Though he lacked any entomological training, Mutis built his own classification for the species he found and named at a time when New World entomology was largely nonexistent. His unorthodox catalog of army ants, leafcutters, and other six-legged creatures found along the banks of the Magdalena provided a starting point for future study. Wilson and Durán weave a compelling, fast-paced story of ants on the march and the eighteenth-century scientist who followed them. A unique glance into the early world of science exploration, Kingdom of Ants is a delight to read and filled with intriguing information.
Author | : Stephen Jay Gould |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1990-09-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393245209 |
"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book Review High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.
Author | : Juan J. Morrone |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2020-07-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 303047917X |
This book presents an evolutionary biogeographic analysis of the Mexican Transition Zone, which is situated in the overlap of the Nearctic and Neotropical regions. It includes a comprehensive review of previous track, cladistic and molecular biogeographic analyses and is illustrated with full color maps and vegetation photographs of the respective areas covered. Given its scope, the book will be of interest to students and researchers whose work involves systematic and biogeographic analyses of plant and animal taxa of the Mexican Transition Zone or other transition zones of the world, and to ecologists working in biodiversity conservation, who will be able to appreciate the evolutionary relevance of the Mexican Transition Zone for establishing conservation areas..
Author | : Topsell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2016-06-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113662757X |
First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Helen Anne Curry |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 683 |
Release | : 2018-11-22 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 131651031X |
Explores the development of natural history since the Renaissance and contextualizes current discussions of biodiversity.
Author | : Paul O'Higgins |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2000-04-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780125249652 |
This volume attempts to provide accessible accounts of these advances in developmental biology for the non-expert, together with contributions from hominid palaeontologists, which aim to bring this developmental perspective to bear on interpretation of the skeletal record of human evolution. This combined approach is, as yet, in its infancy but it is likely that it will impact significantly on palaeoanthropology and palaeontolgy in general.
Author | : C. E. Jarvis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1042 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Since 1981, hundreds of botanists around the globe have been studying names, specimens and illustrations in order to identify type specimens so that all Linnaeus’ plant names can be applied clearly and consistently worldwide. This book is the culmination of more than twenty-five years research. It provides a comprehensive catalogue, listing each Linnaean name, and also contains detailed accounts both of Linnaeus’ publications and those of other botanists that contributed to his understanding of plants. This landmark work will be published to mark the tercentenary of Linnaeus’ birth in May 2007.