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Author |
: Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 1002 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801867894 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801867897 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Alfred Russel Wallace Reader by : Alfred Russel Wallace
"Explore[s] the extraordinary range of Wallace's interests, which encompassed ecology, evolution, spiritualism, and socialism." -- Science
Author |
: Peter Raby |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2020-12-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691222431 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691222436 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Alfred Russel Wallace by : Peter Raby
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 |
: Michael A. Flannery |
Publisher |
: Discovery Inst |
Total Pages |
: 150 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0979014190 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780979014192 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Alfred Russel Wallace by : Michael A. Flannery
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.
Author |
: Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press (UK) |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2013-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199683994 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199683999 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Alfred Russel Wallace by : Alfred Russel Wallace
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.
Author |
: Christiane Dorion |
Publisher |
: Candlewick Studio |
Total Pages |
: 65 |
Release |
: 2020-03-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781536209327 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1536209325 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Darwin's Rival: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Search for Evolution by : Christiane Dorion
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 |
: Michael A. Flannery |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0981520448 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780981520445 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Intelligent Evolution by : Michael A. Flannery
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 |
: Charles H. Smith |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 446 |
Release |
: 2019-06-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226622101 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022662210X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion by : Charles H. Smith
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.
Author |
: Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher |
: Verso |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2003-12-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1859844782 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781859844786 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Infinite Tropics by : Alfred Russel Wallace
Culled from his books, articles and letters, this collection comprises Wallace s best and most important writing.
Author |
: Alfred Russel Wallace |
Publisher |
: Рипол Классик |
Total Pages |
: 522 |
Release |
: 1905 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015068425464 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis My Life by : Alfred Russel Wallace
Author |
: Penny Van Oosterzee |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801484979 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801484971 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Where Worlds Collide by : Penny Van Oosterzee
Where Worlds Collide is the fascinating story of a biologist's spectacular discovery that has deeply changed the way we view the world.