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035 _a(DE-B1597)209581
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072 7 _aSCI034000
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082 0 4 _a508.598
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aWallace, Alfred Russel
_eautore
245 1 0 _aOn the Organic Law of Change :
_bA Facsimile Edition and Annotated Transcription of Alfred Russel Wallace's Species Notebook of 1855-1859 /
_cAlfred Russel Wallace.
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2013
300 _a1 online resource (587 p.) :
_b307 halftones, 1 line illustration, 1 map, 29 tables
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tNote on the Text --
_tIntroduction --
_tSpecies Notebook (Recto) --
_t[1]-[35] --
_t[36]-[85] --
_t[86]-[135] --
_t[136]-[181] --
_tSpecies Notebook (Verso) --
_t[1]-[58] --
_t[59]-[77] --
_tAppendix 1: Species Notebook Entries Bearing on Transmutation and Related Topics --
_tAppendix 2: On Wallace's Critique of Charles Lyell and Principles of Geology --
_tReferences --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aMarking the centennial of Alfred Russel Wallace's death, James Costa presents an elegant edition of the "Species Notebook" of 1855-1859, which Wallace kept during his Malay Archipelago expedition. Presented in facsimile with text transcription and annotations, this never-before-published document provides a window into the travels, trials, and genius of the co-discoverer of natural selection. In one section, headed "Note for Organic Law of Change"--a critique of geologist Charles Lyell's anti-evolutionary arguments--Wallace sketches a book he would never write, owing to the unexpected events of 1858. In that year he sent a manuscript announcing his discovery of natural selection to Charles Darwin. Lyell and the botanist Joseph Hooker proposed a joint reading at the Linnean Society of his scientific paper with Darwin's earlier private writings on the subject. Darwin would go on to publish On the Origin of Species in 1859, to much acclaim; pre-empted, Wallace's first book on evolution waited two decades, but by then he had abandoned his original concept. On the Organic Law of Change realizes in spirit Wallace's unfinished project, and asserts his stature as not only a founder of biogeography and the preeminent tropical biologist of his day but as Darwin's equal.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aEvolution (Biology).
650 0 _aNatural history
_xMalay Archipelago.
650 0 _aNatural selection.
650 7 _aSCIENCE / History.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
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