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.
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This volume reprints the the papers presented by Alfred Russell Wallace with Charles Darwin to the Linnean Society in 1858 which led to his theory of natural selection.
VOLUME IX: Part I: Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection I. On the Law which has regulated the introduction of New Species. II. On the Tendency of Varieties to depart indefinitely from the Original Type. III. Mimicry, and other Protective Resemblances among Animals. IV. The Malayan Papilionidoe, or Swallow-tailed Butterflies, as illustrative of the Theory of Natural Selection. V. On Instinct in Man and Animals. VI. The Philosophy of Birds’ Nests. VII. A Theory of Birds’ Nests; showing the relation of certain differences of colour in female birds to their mode of nidification. VIII. Creation by Law. IX. The Development of Human Races under the Law of Natural Selection. X. The Limits of Natural Selection as applied to Man. Article: Man and natural selection, Part II: On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties
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ISBN
9780415327398
Publisert
2003-11-27
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Routledge
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980 gr
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234 mm
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156 mm
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UU, UP, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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