Darwin's Rival: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Search for Evolution

Darwin's Rival: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Search for Evolution
Author: Christiane Dorion
Publisher: Candlewick Studio
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1536209325

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A beautifully illustrated volume follows a lesser-known Victorian naturalist and explorer on his global journeys — and reveals how he developed his own theory of evolution. Everyone knows Charles Darwin, the famous naturalist who proposed a theory of evolution. But not everyone knows the story of Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin’s friend and rival who simultaneously discovered the process of natural selection. This sumptuously illustrated book tells Wallace’s story, from his humble beginnings to his adventures in the Amazon rain forest and Malay Archipelago, and demonstrates the great contribution he made to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time.

Darwin's Rival: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Search for Evolution

Darwin's Rival: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Search for Evolution
Author: Christiane Dorion
Publisher: Candlewick Studio
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1536209325

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A beautifully illustrated volume follows a lesser-known Victorian naturalist and explorer on his global journeys — and reveals how he developed his own theory of evolution. Everyone knows Charles Darwin, the famous naturalist who proposed a theory of evolution. But not everyone knows the story of Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin’s friend and rival who simultaneously discovered the process of natural selection. This sumptuously illustrated book tells Wallace’s story, from his humble beginnings to his adventures in the Amazon rain forest and Malay Archipelago, and demonstrates the great contribution he made to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time.

Darwin's Rival

Darwin's Rival
Author: Christiane Dorion
Publisher: Walker Studio
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2020-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781406378443

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Follow Victorian naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace on his intrepid journeys across the globe and find out how he developed his own theory of evolution in this beautiful illustrated gift hardback. In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace¿s travels in the Amazon Basin and Malay Archipelago led him to discover natural selection independently of Charles Darwin. Darwin's Rival traces Wallace¿s life from his childhood in the Welsh countryside to his rise to prominence among the scientific community, via dense tropical jungles and perilous journeys ¿ and shines a light on one of the most important contributors to the theory of evolution. With evocative illustrations by Harry Tennant, this stunning gift book will appeal to children and adults alike, and is the perfect introduction to the man so often eclipsed by his contemporary and friend Charles Darwin.

Dispelling The Darkness: Voyage In The Malay Archipelago And The Discovery Of Evolution By Wallace And Darwin

Dispelling The Darkness: Voyage In The Malay Archipelago And The Discovery Of Evolution By Wallace And Darwin
Author: John Van Wyhe
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2013-05-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814458821

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“The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.”T H Huxley (1887)Darwin is one of the most famous scientists in history. But he was not alone. Comparatively forgotten, Wallace independently discovered evolution by natural selection in Southeast Asia. This book is based on the most thorough research ever conducted on Wallace's voyage. Closely connected, but worlds apart, Darwin and Wallace's stories hold many surprises. Did Darwin really keep his theory a secret for twenty years? Did he plagiarise Wallace? Were their theories really the same? How did Wallace hit on the solution, and on which island? This book reveals for the first time the true story of Darwin, Wallace and the discovery that would change our understanding of life on Earth forever.

Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Intelligent Evolution

Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Intelligent Evolution
Author: Michael A. Flannery
Publisher:
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780981520445

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Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), co-discoverer of natural selection, was second only to Charles Darwin as the 19th century's most noted English naturalist. Yet his belief in spiritualism caused him to be ridiculed and dismissed by many. Though based upon very different formulations of natural selection, the Wallace/Darwin dispute as presented by Flannery shows a metaphysical clash of worldviews coextensive with modern evolutionary theory itself.

Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace
Author: Michael A. Flannery
Publisher: Discovery Inst
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780979014192

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A new biography of the co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection and one of the nineteenth century's most intriguing scientists.

A Delicate Arrangement

A Delicate Arrangement
Author: Arnold C. Brackman
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1980
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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Includes two essays by Wallace, "On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species" and "On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type."

The Heretic in Darwin's Court

The Heretic in Darwin's Court
Author: Ross A. Slotten
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2006-04-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780231130110

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During their lifetimes, Wallace and Darwin shared credit and fame for the independent and near-simultaneous discovery of natural selection. Their rivalry, usually amicable but occasionally acrimonious, forged modern evolutionary theory. Yet today, few people today know much about Wallace. This book explores the controversial life and scientific contributions of the Victorian traveler, scientist and spiritualist. His twelve years of often harrowing travels in the western and eastern tropics place him in the pantheon of the greatest explorer-naturalists of the nineteenth century. Tracing his discovery of natural selection, the book then follows the remaining fifty years of Wallace's eccentric and entertaining life. In addition to his divergence from Darwin on two fundamental issues--sexual selection and the origin of the human mind--he pursued topics that most scientific figures of his day conspicuously avoided, including spiritualism, phrenology, mesmerism, environmentalism, and life on Mars.--From publisher description.

The Malay Archipelago

The Malay Archipelago
Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher:
Total Pages: 576
Release: 1898
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN:

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The Evolutionist

The Evolutionist
Author: Avi Sirlin
Publisher: Aurora Metro Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781910798010

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Tells of one man's struggle to put forward his incredible theory of evolution (before Charles Darwin) and the price he pays. From oppressive jungle to mid-Victorian London, this is a disturbing tale of money, class, faith and discrimination.