The Butterfly Hunter: Henry Walter Bates FRS, 1825-1892: The Life of Henry Walter Bates [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Crawforth, Dr Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0956071619 ISBN 13: 9780956071613

Verlag: The University of Buckingham Press, 2009

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Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) led an extraordinary life, around the time of Darwin. He was dedicated to locating and identifying butterflies, particularly in South America. Crawforth (PhD candidate, biography, Buckingham U) offers this fascinating history discussing the evolution of an evolutionary man, his origins and younger days in Leicester, his life-changing journey to South America, his travels throughout the landscape of South America in search of his butterflies, the theories he developed and promoted, and, by extension, his work and his role in the perspective of Darwin.

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There are the three great names in 19th Century biology. Charles Darwin, Alfred Wallace and Henry Walter Bates and yet the only full biography of Bates was written in 1969. This woeful void is remedied by Anthony Crawforth. Bates was a crucial figure and played an important part in helping both Darwin and Wallace complete their thinking. Batesian Mimicry, as it is still known, developed from the study of butterflies in the amazon rainforest (with Wallace) and provided important supporting evidence for Darwin. And it was Darwin who persuaded Bates to write his travel memoir The Naturalist on the River Amazons and indeed proof read the manuscript. On his travels Bates collected over 14,000 specimens of which over 8,000 were at the time new to science. He later went on to become the administrator for the Royal Geographical Society and transformed the society to one which combined exploration with academic research and was responsible for placing geography on the school curriculum. This is a long overdue book that reassesses Bates s life and work and finally places both the man and his work in their rightful place alongside the other greats."

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• Verlag: The University of Buckingham Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0956071619
• ISBN 13: 9780956071613
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320