On The Law Which Has Regulated The Introduction Of New Species

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 23 pages
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Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781473362512

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On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species by Alfred Russel Wallace Pdf

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1855 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species' is an article that details Wallace's ideas on the natural arrangement of species and their successive creation. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of Llanbadoc, in Monmouthshire, Wales. Wallace was inspired by the travelling naturalists of the day and decided to begin his exploration career collecting specimens in the Amazon rainforest. He explored the Rio Negra for four years, making notes on the peoples and languages he encountered as well as the geography, flora, and fauna. While travelling, Wallace refined his thoughts about evolution and in 1858 he outlined his theory of natural selection in an article he sent to Charles Darwin. Wallace made a huge contribution to the natural sciences and he will continue to be remembered as one of the key figures in the development of evolutionary theory.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022159186

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On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species by Anonymous Pdf

This work is a groundbreaking exploration of the laws that govern the introduction of new species. Written during the early days of the study of evolution, this book reflects the author's passionate curiosity about the natural world. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of science and the evolution of our understanding of the world around us. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Ernst Mayr
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674364465

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The Growth of Biological Thought by Ernst Mayr Pdf

Explores the development of the ideas of evolutionary biology, particularly as affected by the increasing understanding of genetics and of the chemical basis of inheritance.

Author : MJS Hodge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429832949

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Origins and Species by MJS Hodge Pdf

Originally published in 1991, Origins and Species seeks to understand the historical origins of Darwinism. The book analyses the explanatory problem of species variation to which Darwinian theory was a response, while contrasting the Darwinian with other traditions of the time, in the interpretation of organic diversity. The book looks in detail at both Charles Darwin’s theories and Alfred Russell Wallace’s theories of about plant and animal species and raises the question of the context of Darwinism and that of Plato’s and Aristotle’s understanding of species.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10074659

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The annals and magazine of natural history, zoology, botany and geology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : GENT:900000219311

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The Annals and Magazine of Natural History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Botany
ISBN : PRNC:32101048077026

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Annals & Magazine of Natural History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001103306705

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Annals and Magazine of Natural History by Anonim Pdf

Author : James T. Costa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691233796

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Radical by Nature by James T. Costa Pdf

"Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was perhaps the most famous naturalist in the world by the end of his life-- explorer extraordinaire, co-discoverer with Darwin of the principle of natural selection, collector of thousands of species new to science, and best-selling author. Wallace had fallen into obscurity in the 20th century, largely eclipsed by Darwin, but the 2013 centennial of his death led to renewed interest and Wallace is likely to garner attention again in 2023 with the bicentennial of his birth. Against this backdrop, James Costa is proposing a new biography of Wallace. The chapters are arranged chronologically, treating the arc of Wallace's life in a narrative that interweaves key events with the development of Wallace's thought. He devote extra space to the 8-year Malay Archipelago odyssey as the adventure that Wallace himself declared the "central and controlling incident" of his life and became foundational to modern evolution and biogeography. Costa of course discusses Wallace's famous corresondence with Darwin, and how Wallace graciously applauded Darwin's achievement, and became of his closest friends and defenders. In later years, Wallace became associated with "the spiritualist movement" and taking up a range of social causes including championing better working conditions, land preservation, reform in public education, and legal rights for women. Ultimately, Costa argues that the key to understanding Wallace is to realize that he was singularly open to novel, even radical, ideas in scientific and social realms"--

Author : Pierre-Olivier Méthot
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031281570

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Philosophy, History and Biology: Essays in Honour of Jean Gayon by Pierre-Olivier Méthot Pdf

This book builds on recent scholarship highlighted in the edited collections, Philosophie, histoire, biologie: mélanges offerts à Jean Gayon (Merlin & Huneman, 2018) and Knowledge of Life Today (Gayon & Petit 2018/2019). While honoring the career and the thought of Jean Gayon (1949-2018), this book showcases the continued relevance of Gayon’s interdisciplinary work and illustrates his central place in the community of historians and philosophers of the life sciences. Chapters in this book address Jean Gayon’s intellectual trajectory from historical epistemology to the philosophy of biology, the nature and scope of his philosophical approach to the history of science, and his unique contributions to the history and epistemology of biological concepts and theories. Drawing on published and unpublished sources, the book explores some of Gayon’s most significant contributions to the philosophy, history, and social studies of biology.

Author : John Langdon Brooks
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Evolution
ISBN : 9781583481110

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Just Before the Origin by John Langdon Brooks Pdf

Just Before the Origin presents the theory of evolution through natural selection as it was developed by Russel Wallace and published in several essays written from 1848 through 1858, before Darwin’s Origin of the Species in 1889. And yet, Russel Wallace is almost unknown. John Langdon Brooks acts as a scientific detective as he reveals Wallace’s theories and compares the insights of both men in this fascinating study.

Author : David Knight
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134337712

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Alfred Russell Wallace Contributions to the theory of Natural Selection, 1870, and Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace , 'On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties' (Papers presented to the Linnean Society 30th June 1858) by David Knight Pdf

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.

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781473362406

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Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences by Alfred Russel Wallace Pdf

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1.' is a collection of correspondence between Wallace and other scientists, including Charles Darwin. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of Llanbadoc, in Monmouthshire, Wales. Wallace was inspired by the travelling naturalists of the day and decided to begin his exploration career collecting specimens in the Amazon rainforest. He explored the Rio Negra for four years, making notes on the peoples and languages he encountered as well as the geography, flora, and fauna. While travelling, Wallace refined his thoughts about evolution and in 1858 he outlined his theory of natural selection in an article he sent to Charles Darwin. Wallace made a huge contribution to the natural sciences and he will continue to be remembered as one of the key figures in the development of evolutionary theory.

Author : Michael A. Flannery
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817319854

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Nature's Prophet by Michael A. Flannery Pdf

An astute study of Alfred Russel Wallace’s path to natural theology. A spiritualist, libertarian socialist, women’s rights advocate, and critic of Victorian social convention, Alfred Russel Wallace was in every sense a rebel who challenged the emergent scientific certainties of Victorian England by arguing for a natural world imbued with purpose and spiritual significance. Nature’s Prophet:Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology is a critical reassessment of Wallace’s path to natural theology and counters the dismissive narrative that Wallace’s theistic and sociopolitical positions are not to be taken seriously in the history and philosophy of science. Author Michael A. Flannery provides a cogent and lucid account of a crucial—and often underappreciated—element of Wallace’s evolutionary worldview. As co-discoverer, with Charles Darwin, of the theory of natural selection, Wallace willingly took a backseat to the well-bred, better known scientist. Whereas Darwin held fast to his first published scientific explanations for the development of life on earth, Wallace continued to modify his thinking, refining his argument toward a more controversial metaphysical view which placed him within the highly charged intersection of biology and religion. Despite considerable research into the naturalist’s life and work, Wallace’s own evolution from natural selection to natural theology has been largely unexplored; yet, as Flannery persuasively shows, it is readily demonstrated in his writings from 1843 until his death in 1913. Nature’s Prophet provides a detailed investigation of Wallace’s ideas, showing how, although he independently discovered the mechanism of natural selection, he at the same time came to hold a very different view of evolution from Darwin. Ultimately, Flannery shows, Wallace’s reconsideration of the argument for design yields a more nuanced version of creative and purposeful theistic evolution and represents one of the most innovative contributions of its kind in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, profoundly influencing a later generation of scientists and intellectuals.

Author : Michael S Northcott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000816938

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God and Gaia by Michael S Northcott Pdf

God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock. It argues that a Gaian approach to the ecological crisis involves rebalancing human and more-than-human influences on Earth by reviving the ecological agency of local and indigenous human communities, and of nonhuman beings. Present-day human ecological influences on Earth have been growing at pace since the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, when modern humans adopted a machine cosmology in which humans are the sole intelligent agency. The resultant imbalance between human and Earthly agencies is degrading the species diversity of ecosystems, causing local climate changes, and threatens to destabilise the Earth as a System. Across eight chapters this ambitious text engages with traditional cosmologies from the Indian Vedas and classical Greece to Medieval Christianity, with case material from Southeast Asia, Southern Africa and Great Britain. It discusses concepts such as deep time and ancestral time, the ethics of genetic engineering of foods and viruses, and holistic ecological management. Northcott argues that an ontological turn that honours the differential agency of indigenous humans and other kind, and that draws on sacred traditions, will make it is possible to repair the destabilising impacts of contemporary human activities on the Earth System and its constituent ecosystems. This book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of the environmental humanities, history, and cultural and religious studies.