Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life
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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:1.44 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"
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