The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2
Author : Alfred Wallace
Publisher : Litres
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 504164828X
Author : Alfred Wallace
Publisher : Litres
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 504164828X
Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher :
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Ethnology
ISBN :
Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 9780415289313
Author : John Van Wyhe
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2013-05-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9814458821
“The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.”T H Huxley (1887)Darwin is one of the most famous scientists in history. But he was not alone. Comparatively forgotten, Wallace independently discovered evolution by natural selection in Southeast Asia. This book is based on the most thorough research ever conducted on Wallace's voyage. Closely connected, but worlds apart, Darwin and Wallace's stories hold many surprises. Did Darwin really keep his theory a secret for twenty years? Did he plagiarise Wallace? Were their theories really the same? How did Wallace hit on the solution, and on which island? This book reveals for the first time the true story of Darwin, Wallace and the discovery that would change our understanding of life on Earth forever.
Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199683999
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 : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 16,24 MB
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : 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 : Penny Van Oosterzee
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780801484971
Where Worlds Collide is the fascinating story of a biologist's spectacular discovery that has deeply changed the way we view the world.
Author : H.N. Ridley
Publisher :
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 28,16 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Botany
ISBN :
Author : Willem Pieter Groeneveldt
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Chinese
ISBN :
Author : Jane Drakard
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 15,78 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1501719084
The way in which Malays construe ideas about authority and government is the subject of this book. Focusing upon an often-ignored section of the Malay archipelago, Barus, a small kingdom on the coast of northwest Sumatra, the author compares readings based upon the royal chronicles of Hilir and Hulu Barus. She examines the relationship between the upland and the lowland to study the character of Malay political culture in Barus.