1,780 On The Varieties Of Man In The Malay Archipelago Vol. The book unlocks the life of a restless traveller who, although he grew up with an ‘ordinary’ education, became one of the most influential scientists of his time. This volume brings together the letters of the great Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) during his famous travels of 1854-62 in the Malay Archipelago (now Singapore, Malaysia. The Geographical Distribution of Animals With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct 1876. Seller: Greener Books, London, United Kingdom. This compact yet comprehensive biography takes a psychological approach to give insight into a man who was plagued with misfortune: legal issues, obtaining full-time employment, and relationship troubles all vexed him. The Alfred Russel Wallace Reader: A Selection of Writings from the Field (Center Books in Natural History) Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Patrick Armstrong describes Wallace’s long life, from 1823 to the eve of World War I, and shows him to be, in many ways, a more interesting character than his fellow scientist Charles Darwin. The eloquence that has made his The Malay Archipelago a. Although notorious for his unpopular and eccentric beliefs, he is still recognized as one of the leading figures in nineteenth-century British science. Wallace was a brilliant and wide ranging scientist, a passionate social reformer and a gifted writer. Sometimes referred to as the ‘Father of Biogeography’, Alfred Russel Wallace is known as the co-founder of the theory of evolution, and was well-versed in zoology, botany, anthropology, politics, astronomy and psychology. found in Wallaces books and articles, drawing heavily from The Malay Archipelago in. A new, concise, critical biography of a towering but sometimes neglected figure of British science. Alfred Russel Wallaces reputation has been based on the fact that.
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