Alfred Russel Wallace

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Produktbeschreibung

"THE PHENOMENA AND CAUSES OF INSULAR FAUNAS AND FLORAS, INCLUDING A REVISION AND ATTEMPTED SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF GEOLOGICAL CLIMATES " According to Wikipedia: "Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS (8 January 1823 - 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He is best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory. Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the Wallace Line that divides the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts, one in which animals closely related to those of Australia are common, and one in which the species are largely of Asian origin. He was considered the 19th century's leading expert on the geographical distribution of animal species and is sometimes called the "father of biogeography". Wallace was one of the leading evolutionary thinkers of the 19th century and made a number of other contributions to the development of evolutionary theory besides being co-discoverer of natural selection. These included the concept of warning colouration in animals, and the Wallace effect, a hypothesis on how natural selection could contribute to speciation by encouraging the development of barriers against hybridization."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Seltzer Books
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781455405848
• Artikelnr.: 54000474

Autorenporträt

Alfred Russel Wallace est un naturaliste, géographe, explorateur, anthropologue et biologiste britannique. Il a mis au point la théorie de l'évolution par la sélection naturelle au même moment que Charles Darwin.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. The Dispersal of Organisms: 1. Introductory
2. The elementary facts of distribution
3. Classification of the facts of distribution
4. Evolution as the key to distribution
5. The powers of dispersal of animals and plants
6. Geographical and geological changes
7. Changes of climate which have influenced the dispersal of organisms
8. The causes of glacial epochs
9. Ancient glacial epochs, and mild climates in the Arctic regions
10. The earth's age, and the rate of development of animals and plants
Part II. Insular Faunas and Floras: 11. The classification of islands
12. Oceanic islands
13. The Galapagos Islands
14. St Helena
15. The Sandwich Islands
16. Continental islands of recent origin
17. Borneo and Java
18. Japan and Formosa
19. Ancient continental islands
20. Anomalous islands: Celebes
21. Anomalous islands: New Zealand
22. The flora of New Zealand
23. On the Arctic element in south temperate floras
24. Summary and conclusion
Index.