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Titre(s) : An Alfred Russel Wallace companion [Texte imprimé] / edited by Charles H. Smith, James T. Costa, and David Collard
Publication : Chicago : University of Chicago press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VI-439 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 383-420
Although Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was one of the most famous scientists in
the world at the time of his death at the age of ninety, today he is known to many
as a kind of "almost-Darwin," a secondary figure relegated to the footnotes of Darwin's
prodigious insights. But this diminution could hardly be less justified. Research
into the life of this brilliant naturalist and social critic continues to produce
new insights into his significance to history and his role in helping to shape modern
thought. Wallace declared his eight years of exploration in southeast Asia to be "the
central and controlling incident" of his life. As 2019 marks one hundred and fifty
years since the publication of The Malay Archipelago, Wallace's canonical work chronicling
his epic voyage, this collaborative book gathers an interdisciplinary array of writers
to celebrate Wallace's remarkable life and diverse scholarly accomplishments. Wallace
left school at the age of fourteen and was largely self-taught, a voracious curiosity
and appetite for learning sustaining him throughout his long life. After years as
a surveyor and builder, in 1848 he left Britain to become a professional natural history
collector in the Amazon, where he spent four years. Then, in 1854, he departed for
the Malay Archipelago. It was on this voyage that he constructed a theory of natural
selection similar to the one Charles Darwin was developing, and the two copublished
papers on the subject in 1858, some sixteen months before the release of Darwin's
On the Origin of Species
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Smith, Charles Hyde (1950-....). Éditeur scientifique
Costa, James T. (1963-....). Éditeur scientifique
Collard, David A.. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913)
Naturalistes -- Grande-Bretagne
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
508.092 (23e éd.) = Histoire naturelle - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226622101. - ISBN 022662210X (rel.). - ISBN 9780226622248 (eBook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465278203
Notice n° :
FRBNF46527820
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction / Charles H. Smith, James T. Costa, and David Collard ; The early evolution
of Wallace as a thinker / Charles H. Smith ; Wallace and the "preter-normal" / Charles
H. Smith ; Field study, collecting, and systematic representation / James T. Costa
; Wallace, Darwin, and natural selection / James T. Costa ; Wallace on the colors
of animals : defense against predators / Hannah M. Rowland and Eleanor Drinkwater
; The many influences shaping Wallace's views on human evolution / Sherrie Lyons
; Wallace as social critic, sociologist, and societal "prophet" / Martin Fichman
; Land and economics / David Collard ; Physical geography, glaciology, and geology
/ Charles H. Smith ; Historical and ecological biogeography / James T. Costa ; Wallace
at the foundations of biogeography and the frontiers of conservation biology / Mark
V. Lomolino ; Wallace and extraterrestrial life / Robert W. Smith ; Coda.
