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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 October 2010
      20 July 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511701566
      9781108001366
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511701566
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 356 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Earth and Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Geomorphology and Physical Geography, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
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    Subjects:
    Earth and Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Geomorphology and Physical Geography, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
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    In 1830–33, Charles Lyell laid the foundations of evolutionary biology with Principles of Geology, a pioneering book that Charles Darwin took with him on the Beagle. Volume 2 (1832) focuses on plants and animals, and consists of 17 chapters, a comprehensive index and woodcut illustrations of various natural habitats Lyell had observed. The author takes issue with the French biologist Lamarck's theory of the transmutation of species, though Darwin in fact later praised other aspects of Lamarck's work. Lyell examines the connections between the Earth's changing crust and the natural history of many species of birds, insects, mammals and fish. He discusses how wild species physically adapt over time to domestication, the diffusion of plants throughout their specific habitats, geographical distributions of certain types of animals, migratory pattern adaptation due to climate change, hybrid plants, species extinction and how organic deposits, such as moss, on emerging land affect species adaptation.

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