| Alfred Russell Wallace Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection, 1870, and Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace, 'on the Tendency of Species to F Contributor(s): Knight, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415327393 ISBN-13: 9780415327398 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $371.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2003 Annotation: This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Evolution - Science | History - Science | Paleontology |
| Dewey: 576.82 |
| Series: Evolution Debate, 1813-1870 |
| Physical Information: 1.49" H x 6.46" W x 9.4" (1.76 lbs) 444 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |