The Alfred Russel Wallace Reader

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801867897
Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book The Alfred Russel Wallace Reader written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explore[s] the extraordinary range of Wallace's interests, which encompassed ecology, evolution, spiritualism, and socialism." -- Science

Alfred Russel Wallace

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691222436
Total Pages : 352 pages
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Book Synopsis Alfred Russel Wallace by : Peter Raby

Download or read book Alfred Russel Wallace written by Peter Raby and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the Spice Islands, wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection. Darwin was aghast--his work of decades was about to be scooped. Within two weeks, his outline and Wallace's paper were presented jointly in London. A year later, with Wallace still on the opposite side of the globe, Darwin published On the Origin of Species. This new biography of Wallace traces the development of one of the most remarkable scientific travelers, naturalists, and thinkers of the nineteenth century. With vigor and sensitivity, Peter Raby reveals his subject as a courageous, unconventional explorer and a man of exceptional humanity. He draws more extensively on Wallace's correspondence than has any previous biographer and offers a revealing yet balanced account of the relationship between Wallace and Darwin. Wallace lacked Darwin's advantages. A largely self-educated native of Wales, he spent four years in the Amazon in his mid-twenties collecting specimens for museums and wealthy patrons, only to lose his finds in a shipboard fire in the mid-Atlantic. He vowed never to travel again. Yet two years later he was off to the East Indies on a vast eight-year trek; here he discovered countless species and identified the point of divide between Asian and Australian fauna, 'Wallace's Line.' After his return, he plunged into numerous controversies and published regularly until his death at the age of ninety, in 1913. He penned a classic volume on his travels, founded the discipline of biogeography, promoted natural selection, and produced a distinctive account of mind and consciousness in man. Sensitive and self-effacing, he was an ardent socialist--and spiritualist. Wallace is one of the neglected giants of the history of science and ideas. This stirring biography--the first for many years--puts him back at center stage, where he belongs.

Alfred Russel Wallace

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Publisher : Discovery Inst
ISBN 13 : 9780979014192
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (141 download)

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Book Synopsis Alfred Russel Wallace by : Michael A. Flannery

Download or read book Alfred Russel Wallace written by Michael A. Flannery and published by Discovery Inst. This book was released on 2011 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new biography of the co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection and one of the nineteenth century's most intriguing scientists.

Alfred Russel Wallace

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Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0199683999
Total Pages : 352 pages
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Download or read book Alfred Russel Wallace written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of newly transcribed letters documents the travels of the Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, during which he famously discovered natural selection independently of Darwin. Vivid with detail, the letters are fully annotated and accompanied by an introduction with a newly reconstructed itinerary.

Darwin's Rival: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Search for Evolution

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Publisher : Candlewick Studio
ISBN 13 : 1536209325
Total Pages : 65 pages
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Book Synopsis Darwin's Rival: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Search for Evolution by : Christiane Dorion

Download or read book Darwin's Rival: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Search for Evolution written by Christiane Dorion and published by Candlewick Studio. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated volume follows a lesser-known Victorian naturalist and explorer on his global journeys — and reveals how he developed his own theory of evolution. Everyone knows Charles Darwin, the famous naturalist who proposed a theory of evolution. But not everyone knows the story of Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin’s friend and rival who simultaneously discovered the process of natural selection. This sumptuously illustrated book tells Wallace’s story, from his humble beginnings to his adventures in the Amazon rain forest and Malay Archipelago, and demonstrates the great contribution he made to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time.

Infinite Tropics

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Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859844786
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Infinite Tropics written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by Verso. This book was released on 2003-12-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culled from his books, articles and letters, this collection comprises Wallace s best and most important writing.

Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Intelligent Evolution

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ISBN 13 : 9780981520445
Total Pages : 251 pages
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Book Synopsis Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Intelligent Evolution by : Michael A. Flannery

Download or read book Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Intelligent Evolution written by Michael A. Flannery and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), co-discoverer of natural selection, was second only to Charles Darwin as the 19th century's most noted English naturalist. Yet his belief in spiritualism caused him to be ridiculed and dismissed by many. Though based upon very different formulations of natural selection, the Wallace/Darwin dispute as presented by Flannery shows a metaphysical clash of worldviews coextensive with modern evolutionary theory itself.

Travels on the Amazon

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Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Travels on the Amazon written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022662210X
Total Pages : 446 pages
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Book Synopsis An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion by : Charles H. Smith

Download or read book An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion written by Charles H. Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was one of the most famous scientists in the world at the time of his death at the age of ninety, today he is known to many as a kind of “almost-Darwin,” a secondary figure relegated to the footnotes of Darwin’s prodigious insights. But this diminution could hardly be less justified. Research into the life of this brilliant naturalist and social critic continues to produce new insights into his significance to history and his role in helping to shape modern thought. Wallace declared his eight years of exploration in southeast Asia to be “the central and controlling incident” of his life. As 2019 marks one hundred and fifty years since the publication of The Malay Archipelago, Wallace’s canonical work chronicling his epic voyage, this collaborative book gathers an interdisciplinary array of writers to celebrate Wallace’s remarkable life and diverse scholarly accomplishments. Wallace left school at the age of fourteen and was largely self-taught, a voracious curiosity and appetite for learning sustaining him throughout his long life. After years as a surveyor and builder, in 1848 he left Britain to become a professional natural history collector in the Amazon, where he spent four years. Then, in 1854, he departed for the Malay Archipelago. It was on this voyage that he constructed a theory of natural selection similar to the one Charles Darwin was developing, and the two copublished papers on the subject in 1858, some sixteen months before the release of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. But as the contributors to the Companion show, this much-discussed parallel evolution in thought was only one epoch in an extraordinary intellectual life. When Wallace returned to Britain in 1862, he commenced a career of writing on a huge range of subjects extending from evolutionary studies and biogeography to spiritualism and socialism. An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion provides something of a necessary reexamination of the full breadth of Wallace’s thought—an attempt to describe not only the history and present state of our understanding of his work, but also its implications for the future.

Natural Selection and Beyond

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199239177
Total Pages : 509 pages
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Book Synopsis Natural Selection and Beyond by : Charles Hyde Smith

Download or read book Natural Selection and Beyond written by Charles Hyde Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 - 1913) was one of the late nineteenth century's most potent intellectual forces. His link to Darwin as co-discoverer of the principle of natural selection alone would have secured him a place in history, but he went on to complete work entitling him to recognition as the 'father' of modern biogeographical studies, as a pioneer in the field of astrobiology, and as an important contributor to subjects as far-ranging as glaciology, land reform, anthropology and ethnography, and epidemiology. Beyond this, many are coming to regard Wallace as the pre-eminent field biologist, collector, and naturalist of tropical regions. Add to that the fact that he was a vocal supporter of spiritualism, socialism, and the rights of the ordinary person, and it quickly becomes apparent that Wallace was a man of extraordinary breadth of attention. Yet his work in many of these areas is still not well known, and still less recognized is his relevance to current day research almost 100 years after his death. This rich collection of writings by more than twenty historians and scientists reviews and reflects on the work that made Wallace a famous man in his own time, and a figure of extraordinary influence and continuing interest today.

On the Organic Law of Change

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674726022
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book On the Organic Law of Change written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the centennial of Alfred Russel Wallace's death, James Costa presents an elegant edition of the "Species Notebook" of 1855-1859, which Wallace kept during his Malay Archipelago expedition. Presented in facsimile with text transcription and annotations, this never-before-published document provides a window into the travels, trials, and genius of the co-discoverer of natural selection. In one section, headed "Note for Organic Law of Change"--a critique of geologist Charles Lyell's anti-evolutionary arguments--Wallace sketches a book he would never write, owing to the unexpected events of 1858. In that year he sent a manuscript announcing his discovery of natural selection to Charles Darwin. Lyell and the botanist Joseph Hooker proposed a joint reading at the Linnean Society of his scientific paper with Darwin's earlier private writings on the subject. Darwin would go on to publish On the Origin of Species in 1859, to much acclaim; pre-empted, Wallace's first book on evolution waited two decades, but by then he had abandoned his original concept. On the Organic Law of Change realizes in spirit Wallace's unfinished project, and asserts his stature as not only a founder of biogeography and the preeminent tropical biologist of his day but as Darwin's equal.

My Life

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Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book My Life written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1905 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Delicate Arrangement

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Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis A Delicate Arrangement by : Arnold C. Brackman

Download or read book A Delicate Arrangement written by Arnold C. Brackman and published by Crown. This book was released on 1980 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes two essays by Wallace, "On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species" and "On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type."

An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles

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Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
ISBN 13 : 9814385204
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles written by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2012 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part travelogue, part biography, this book charts the discoveries of the famous naturalist/explorer Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913).

Where Worlds Collide

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801484971
Total Pages : 262 pages
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Book Synopsis Where Worlds Collide by : Penny Van Oosterzee

Download or read book Where Worlds Collide written by Penny Van Oosterzee and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Worlds Collide is the fascinating story of a biologist's spectacular discovery that has deeply changed the way we view the world.

Is Mars Habitable? A Critical Examination of Professor Percival Lowell's Book "Mars and its Canals," with an Alternative Explanation

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Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465560149
Total Pages : 103 pages
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Book Synopsis Is Mars Habitable? A Critical Examination of Professor Percival Lowell's Book "Mars and its Canals," with an Alternative Explanation by : Alfred Russel Wallace

Download or read book Is Mars Habitable? A Critical Examination of Professor Percival Lowell's Book "Mars and its Canals," with an Alternative Explanation written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1907-01-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few persons except astronomers fully realise that of all the planets of the Solar system the only one whose solid surface has been seen with certainty is Mars; and, very fortunately, that is also the only one which is sufficiently near to us for the physical features of the surface to be determined with any accuracy, even if we could see it in the other planets. Of Venus we probably see only the upper surface of its cloudy atmosphere. As regards Jupiter and Saturn this is still more certain, since their low density will only permit of a comparatively small proportion of their huge bulk being solid. Their belts are but the cloud-strata of their upper atmosphere, perhaps thousands of miles above their solid surfaces, and a somewhat similar condition seems to prevail in the far more remote planets Uranus and Neptune. It has thus happened, that, although as telescopic objects of interest and beauty, the marvellous rings of Saturn, the belts and ever-changing aspects of the satellites of Jupiter, and the moon-like phases of Venus, together with its extreme brilliancy, still remain unsurpassed, yet the greater amount of details of these features when examined with the powerful instruments of the nineteenth century have neither added much to our knowledge of the planets themselves or led to any sensational theories calculated to attract the popular imagination. But in the case of Mars the progress of discovery has had a very different result. The most obvious peculiarity of this planet—its polar snow-caps—were seen about 250 years ago, but they were first proved to increase and decrease alternately, in the summer and winter of each hemisphere, by Sir William Herschell in the latter part of the eighteenth century. This fact gave the impulse to that idea of similarity in the conditions of Mars and the earth, which the recognition of many large dusky patches and streaks as water, and the more ruddy and brighter portions as land, further increased. Added to this, a day only about half an hour longer than our own, and a succession of seasons of the same character as ours but of nearly double the length owing to its much longer year, seemed to leave little wanting to render this planet a true earth on a smaller scale. It was therefore very natural to suppose that it must be inhabited, and that we should some day obtain evidence of the fact.

Borneo, Celebes, Aru

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141025484
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Borneo, Celebes, Aru written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racked with fever, virtually broke and earning a precarious living through sending back to London the plumes of beautiful birds, Wallace (1823-1913) ultimately became one of the most heroic and admirable of all scientist-explorers. Whether living with Hill Dyaks or hunting Orang-Utans or sailing on a junk to the unbelievably remote Aru islands, Wallace opens our eyes to a now long vanished world. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries � but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.