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Infinite Tropics : An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology

  • Infinite Tropics : An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology

  • Attribution

    edited by Andrew Berry ; with a preface by Stephen Jay Gould

  • Publication Details

    Book, Verso, 2002

  • Availability

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      (UPPER LEVEL)  QH375 .W35 2002         AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    Alfred Russel Wallace was thirty-five and stricken with malaria in the Moluccan Islands when, in a feverish ‘flash of light,’ he stumbled on the theory of natural selection. Not only the co-discoverer of natural selection, he was also the founder of island biogeography, a significant contributor to the fields of evolution, glaciology and anthropology, and a great writer, author of Travels in the Amazon and The Malay Archipelago. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

  • Authors

  • Subject

  • Contents

    • Preface / Stephen Jay Gould
    • A Biographical Sketch. "A very dull, ignorant, and uneducated person" Journeys. Intellectual Life: "Satisfaction, Retrospection and Work" Domestic Life: "Gardening and rural walks"
    • Science. Beginnings. The "Sarawak Law" The "Ternate Paper" "Thunderbolt from a cloudless sky": Darwin and Natural Selection. Evolution by Natural Selection. Agreeing with Darwin. Disagreeing with Darwin. Female Choice. Genetics. Name Selection. Beyond Natural Selection. Darwinism. The Amazon. South-east Asia: "Wallace’s Line" Synthesis. The Amazon. South-east Asia. Conservation. Geology. Glaciology
    • Humans. "Uncivilised people" "A being apart": Human Evolution. Human Improvement
    • Spiritualism and Metaphysics. "Strange Doings": Conversion. "To excite to inquiry": Spiritualism and Science. A World Viewed Through the Lens of Spiritualism
    • Travel. Expectations. City Life. Life in the Field. "An industrious and persevering traveller" "Tedious and unfortunate": Hazardous Voyages. "A want of harmony between man and nature": American Travels
    • Social Issues. Evolution of a Socialist. "Robbery of the poor by the rich": The Land Problem. Public Health. Institutional Reform. Public Education. Capitalism and Empire. Economics. Globalization. War and Imperialism
    • Coda: Wallace and Darwin

  • ISBN

    • 1859846521

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