Darwin s biography

1966 hardcover with 261 pages in good condition, though ex-library. R60 postage in SA.   Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection; his paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin 's writings in 1858. [2] This prompted Darwin to publish his own ideas in On the Origin of Species. Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the faunal divide now termed the Wallace Line, which separates the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts: a western portion in which the animals are largely of Asian origin, and an eastern portion where the fauna reflect Australasia. He was considered the 19th century's leading expert on the geographical distribution of animal species and is sometimes called the "father of biogeography ". [3] Wallace was one of the leading evolutionary thinkers of the 19th century and made many other contributions to the development of evolutionary theory besides being co-discoverer of natural selection. These included the concept of warning colouration in animals, and the Wallace effect, a hypothesis on how natural selection could contribute to speciation by encouraging the development of barriers against hybridisation. Wallace was strongly attracted to unconventional ideas (such as evolution). His advocacy of spiritualism and his belief in a non-material origin for the higher mental faculties of humans strained his relationship with some members of the scientific establishment.  

Hardcover with d/j. Binding is tight and clean inside. First published in Great Britain in 1981 by Cassell LTD. with 743 pages. Foxing on page ends. The d/j is unclipped, but has tears along the edges. It is now covered with a removable plastic film. This book fills an important gap in the literature on Charles Darwin. The whole world knows Darwin's name, but hardly anything about the man. Now at last the reader can meet him and his word in the proper perspective. Postage in RSA = R67.00.  

 1952 1st edition published by Rupert Hart-Davis. An attempt by the grandson of Charles Darwin to predict the future of the human race over the next one million years. The jacket is a bit grubby, but the book is sound. It has the previous owner's details written inside in pen.

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