Island Life: Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Wallace Alfred Russell
Автор: Wallace, Alfred Russell Название: My life ISBN: 1602064199 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781602064195 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 30640.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "Author of the curious The Wonderful Century, British biologist and explorer ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE (1823 1913) here brings to readers a review of his own life. Discover: the studies that led him on exotic exploits, like his journeys through the Amazon River basin and the Malay archipelago researching plant and animal species; the radical social views that brought him much infamy at home, such as his refusal to believe that evolution, theories of which he developed in parallel with Darwin, could account for human endeavors such as mathematics and art. Spiritualist, creative thinker, and adventurer, Wallace led a singular life detailed with humor and humility in this autobiography. History buffs and those who are interested in the major scientific figures of the 19th century will love getting to know this influential scientist. "
Автор: Flannery Michael A. Название: Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life ISBN: 0979014190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780979014192 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 14670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
For years Alfred Russel Wallace was little more than an obscure adjunct to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Remembered only for prompting Darwin to write On the Origin of Species in 1859 by writing his own letter proposing a theory of natural selection, Wallace was rightly dubbed by one biographer "the forgotten naturalist." In 1998 Sahotra Sarkar bemoaned Wallace's "lapse into obscurity," noting that "at least in the 19th century literature, the theory of evolution was usually referred to as 'the Darwin and Wallace theory'. In the 20th century, the theory of evolution has become virtually synonymous with Darwinism or neo-Darwinism." While the complaint still has a ring of truth, a decade of recent interest in Wallace has done much to bring him back from history's crypt of forgotten figures. This shouldn't suggest unanimity of opinion, however.
Some regard him as a heretic, others as merely a misguided scientist-turned-spiritualist, still others as a prescient figure anticipating the modern Gaia hypothesis. Perhaps Martin Fichman's phrase hits closest and most persistently to the truth--"the elusive Victorian." Can the real Wallace be found? If so, what might we learn in that rediscovery? The provocative thesis of this new biography is that Wallace, in developing his unique brand of evolution, presaged modern intelligent design theory. Wallace's devotion to discovering the truths of nature brought him through a lifetime of research to see genuine design in the natural world. This was Wallace's ultimate heresy, a heresy that exposed the metaphysical underpinnings of the emerging Darwinian paradigm.
Автор: Blind Mathilde, Wallace Alfred Russell Название: The Ascent of Man. [With Other Poems.] ISBN: 1241173060 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781241173067 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 23680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Wallace Alfred Russell Название: The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the ISBN: 1718902522 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781718902527 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 24140.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The present work is an attempt to collect and summarize the existing information on the Distribution of Land Animals; and to explain the more remarkable and interesting of the facts, by means of established laws of physical and organic change. The main idea, which is here worked out in some detail for the whole earth, was stated sixteen years ago in the concluding pages of a paper on the "Zoological Geography of the Malay Archipelago," which appeared in the Journal of Proceedings of the Linnean Society for 1860; and again, in a paper read before the Royal Geographical Society in 1863, it was briefly summarized in the following passage: - "My object has been to show the important bearing of researches into the natural history of every part of the world, upon the study of its past history. An accurate knowledge of any groups of birds or of insects and of their geographical distribution, may enable us to map out the islands and continents of a former epoch, -the amount of difference that exists between the animals of adjacent districts being closely related to preceding geological changes. By the collection of such minute facts, alone, can we hope to fill up a great gap in the past history of the earth as revealed by geology, and obtain some indications of the existence of those ancient lands which now lie buried beneath the ocean, and have left us nothing but these living records of their former existence
Автор: Wallace Alfred Russell Название: Malay Archipelago Volume I ISBN: 1499513607 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781499513608 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Raby, Peter Название: Alfred Russel Wallace ISBN: 0712665773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780712665773 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 14070.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In 1858, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the remote Spice Islands, Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection. A year later, with Wallace still at the opposite side of the world, On the Origin of Species was published.
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