| Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Collection Contributor(s): Wallace, Alfred Russel (Author), Berry, Andrew (Editor), Gould, Stephen Jay (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1859844782 ISBN-13: 9781859844786 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2003 Annotation: Alfred Russel Wallace's letter to Charles Darwin about his independent discovery of natural selection panicked Darwin into rushing out On the Origin of Species, leaving Wallace to fall under his shadow. Andrew Berry's anthology rescues Wallace's legacy, showing Wallace--through extracts from personal letters, his political writings, and scientific papers--to be far more than the co-discoverer of natural selection. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Science | History - Science | Life Sciences - Evolution |
| Dewey: 576.8 |
| Physical Information: 1.04" H x 6.17" W x 9.22" (1.40 lbs) 430 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Alfred Russel Wallace's reputation has been based on the fact that, at age thirty-five and stricken with malaria in the Moluccan Islands, he stumbled independently upon on the theory of natural selection. Andrew Berry's anthology rescue's Wallace's legacy, showing Wallace to be far more than just the co-discoverer of natural selection. Wallace was a brilliant and wide-ranging scientist, a passionate social reformer and a gifted writer. The eloquence that has made his The Malay Archipelago a classic of travel writing is a prominent feature too of his extraordinarily forward-thinking writing on socialism, imperialism and pacifism. Wallace's opinions on women's suffrage, on land reform, on the roles of the church and aristocracy in a parliamentary democracy, on publicly funded education--to name a few of the issues he addressed--remain as fresh and as topical today as they were when they were written. |