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Island life, or, The phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras: including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates

Wallace, Alfred RusselQuammen, David(Foreword by)Heaney, Lawrence R.(Introduction by)
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Alfred Russel Wallace is best known as the codiscoverer, with Charles Darwin, of natural selection, but he was also history's foremost tropical naturalist and the father of biogeography, the modern study of the geographical basis of biological basis of biological diversity. 'Island Life' has long been considered one of his most important works.

This is a reissue of the first edition of 'Island Life'.

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University of Chicago Press
022604517X / 9780226045177
eBook
577.22
20/02/2013
English
499 pages
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