Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life

by Peter Raby

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In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the Spice Islands, wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection. Darwin was aghast--his work of decades was about to be scooped. Within two weeks, his outline and Wallace's paper were presented jointly in London. A year later, with Wallace still on the opposite side of the globe, Darwin published On the Origin of Species...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691006954

ISBN13:9780691006956

Release Date:August 2001

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.55 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"

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