Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199684006 ISBN 13: 9780199684007

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

This volume of newly transcribed letters documents the travels of the Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, during which he famously discovered natural selection independently of Darwin.

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John van Wyhe is a historian of science, Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Biological Sciences & History, and a Fellow of Tembusu College at the National University of Singapore. He is the founder and Director of Darwin Online and Wallace Online, Professorial Fellow of Charles Darwin University, Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and a Scientific Associate of the Natural History Museum (London). He lectures and broadcasts on Darwin, Wallace, and the history of science around the world.




Kees Rookmaaker is a biologist specialising in the history of zoology. He has worked for the past eight years on Darwin and Wallace, including work on transcriptions of notebooks and letters. He has also edited detailed surveys of all letters received by the Museum of Zoology, University in Cambridge during the 19th century. He is the author of over 200 papers and several books. He received the Founder's Medal of the Society for the History of Natural History.

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• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0199684006
• ISBN 13: 9780199684007
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
• Herausgeber: Van Wyhe John, Rookmaaker Kees
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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