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      • Volume 2
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2012
      November 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511782367
      9781108022828
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511782367
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.68kg, 544 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Geography, Regional Geography, Zoology
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology
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    Subjects:
    Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Geography, Regional Geography, Zoology
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology
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    Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was a British naturalist who is best remembered as the co-discoverer, with Darwin, of natural selection. His extensive fieldwork and advocacy of the theory of evolution led to him being considered one of the nineteenth century's foremost biologists. These volumes, first published in 1869, contain Wallace's acclaimed and highly influential account of extensive fieldwork he undertook in modern Indonesia, Malaysia and New Guinea between 1854 and 1862. Wallace describes his travels around the island groups, depicting the unusual animals and insects he encountered and providing ethnographic descriptions of the indigenous peoples. Wallace's analysis of biogeographic patterns in Indonesia (later termed the Wallace Line) profoundly influenced contemporary and later evolutionary and geological thought concerning both Indonesia and other areas of the world where similar patterns were found. Volume 2 covers the Molucca Islands and New Guinea.

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