Alfred Russel Wallace Vol 1 2

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473362415
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1.' is a collection of correspondence between Wallace and other scientists, including Herbert Spencer. 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 : Michael A. Flannery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981520445
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Peter Raby
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691222436
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
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Download or read book Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( 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:

Author : James James Marchant
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781718900554
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred Russel Wallace written by James James Marchant and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two volumes consist of a selection from several thousands of letters entrusted to me by the Wallace family and dating from the dawn of Darwinism to the second decade of the twentieth century, supplemented by such biographical particulars and comments as are required for the elucidation of the correspondence and for giving movement and continuity to the whole. The wealth and variety of Wallace's own correspondence, excluding the large collection of letters which he received from many eminent men and women, and the necessity for somewhat lengthy introductions and many annotations, have expanded the work to two (there was, indeed, enough good material to make four) volumes. The family has given me unstinted confidence in using or rejecting letters and reminiscences, and although I have consulted scientific and literary friends, I alone must be blamed for sins of omission or commission. Nothing has been suppressed in the unpublished letters, or in any of the letters which appear in these volumes, because there was anything to hide. Everything Wallace wrote, all his private letters, could be published to the world. His life was an open book-"no weakness, no contempt, dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair."

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Marchant
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781502570383
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences written by James Marchant and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Author : Christiane Dorion
Publisher : Candlewick Studio
ISBN 13 : 1536209325
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674726022
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( 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.