Download or read book The Darwin Wallace Celebration Held on Thursday 1st July 1908 written by Linnean Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First republication of the Darwin and Wallace papers that originally appeared in the Journal of the Linnean Society, 1858, and started the Darwinian theory of the origin of evolution through natural selection.
Download or read book The Darwin Wallace Celebration Held on Thursday 1st July 1908 written by Linnean Society of London and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Download or read book The Darwin Wallace celebration 1908 written by Linnean Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Darwin Wallace Celebration Held on Thursday 1St July 1908 written by Linnean Society of London Staff and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover reprint of the original 1908 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Linnean Society of London. The Darwin-Wallace Celebration Held On Thursday, 1st July, 1908. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Linnean Society of London. The Darwin-Wallace Celebration Held On Thursday, 1st July, 1908, . London, Printed For The Linnean Society, 1908. Subject: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
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Download or read book Wallace Darwin and the Origin of Species written by James T. Costa and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Darwin is often credited with discovering evolution through natural selection, but the idea was not his alone. The naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, working independently, saw the same process at work in the natural world and elaborated much the same theory. Their important scientific contributions made both men famous in their lifetimes, but Wallace slipped into obscurity after his death, while Darwin’s renown grew. Dispelling the misperceptions that continue to paint Wallace as a secondary figure, James Costa reveals the two naturalists as true equals in advancing one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time. Analyzing Wallace’s “Species Notebook,” Costa shows how Wallace’s methods and thought processes paralleled Darwin’s, yet inspired insights uniquely his own. Kept during his Southeast Asian expeditions of the 1850s, the notebook is a window into Wallace’s early evolutionary ideas. It records his evidence-gathering, critiques of anti-evolutionary arguments, and plans for a book on “transmutation.” Most important, it demonstrates conclusively that natural selection was not some idea Wallace stumbled upon, as is sometimes assumed, but was the culmination of a decade-long quest to solve the mystery of the origin of species. Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species also reexamines the pivotal episode in 1858 when Wallace sent Darwin a manuscript announcing his discovery of natural selection, prompting a joint public reading of the two men’s papers on the subject. Costa’s analysis of the “Species Notebook” shines a new light on these readings, further illuminating the independent nature of Wallace’s discoveries.
Download or read book In Darwin s Shadow written by Michael Shermer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-15 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtually unknown today, Alfred Russel Wallace was the co-discoverer of natural selection with Charles Darwin and an eminent scientist who stood out among his Victorian peers as a man of formidable mind and equally outsized personality. Now Michael Shermer rescues Wallace from the shadow of Darwin in this landmark biography. Here we see Wallace as perhaps the greatest naturalist of his age--spending years in remote jungles, collecting astounding quantities of specimens, writing thoughtfully and with bemused detachment at his reception in places where no white man had ever gone. Here, too, is his supple and forceful intelligence at work, grappling with such arcane problems as the bright coloration of caterpillars, or shaping his 1858 paper on natural selection that prompted Darwin to publish (with Wallace) the first paper outlining the theory of evolution. Shermer also shows that Wallace's self-trained intellect, while powerful, also embraced surprisingly naive ideas, such as his deep interest in the study of spiritual manifestations and seances. Shermer shows that the same iconoclastic outlook that led him to overturn scientific orthodoxy as he worked in relative isolation also led him to embrace irrational beliefs, and thus tarnish his reputation. As author of Why People Believe Weird Things and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, Shermer is an authority on why people embrace the irrational. Now he turns his keen judgment and incisive analysis to Wallace's life and his contradictory beliefs, restoring a leading figure in the rise of modern science to his rightful place.
Download or read book Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew written by Kew. Royal Gardens. Library and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Tomb of the Mili Mongga written by Samuel Turvey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Tomb of the Mili Mongga lives up to its magnificent billing' DAILY TELEGRAPH - A fossil expedition becomes a thrilling search for a mythical beast deep in the Indonesian forest – and a fascinating look at how fossils, folklore, and biodiversity converge. A tale of exciting scientific discovery, The Tomb of the Mili Mongga tells the story of Samuel Turvey's expeditions to the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia. While there, he discovers an entire recently extinct mammal fauna from the island's fossil record, revealing how islands support some of the world's most remarkable biodiversity, and why many of these unique endemic species are threatened with extinction or have already been lost. But as the story unfolds, an unexpected narrative emerges – Sumba's Indigenous communities tell of a mysterious wildman called the 'mili mongga', a giant yeti-like beast that supposedly lives in the island's remote forests. What is behind the stories of the mili mongga? Is there a link between this enigmatic entity and the fossils that Sam is looking for? And what did he discover when he finally found the tomb of a mili mongga? Combining evolution, anthropology, travel writing and cryptozoology, The Tomb of the Mili Mongga explores the relationship between biodiversity and culture, what reality means from different cultural perspectives, and how folklore, fossils and conservation can be linked together in surprising ways.
Download or read book The Life Letters and Labours of Francis Galton written by Karl Pearson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published between 1914 and 1930, this biography offers a fascinating insight into the life of the eugenicist Francis Galton.
Download or read book The Life Letters and Labours of Francis Galton written by Karl Pearson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1914 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogues written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Manuscripts Maps and Drawings in the British Museum Natural History written by British Museum (Natural History). Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Darwinism and Natural Theology written by Andrew Robinson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Christianity be reconciled with Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection? What relevance do the biological sciences have to religious thought? Does Christian theology have anything to offer when it comes to formulating scientific hypotheses? These questions are among those explored in this collection of essays arising from a meeting of the UK Science and Religion Forum held in Cambridge to mark the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species. The volume brings together contributions from a distinguished group of scholars at the forefront of the field of science-and-religion, including Denis Alexander, R. J. Berry, John Hedley Brooke, Sarah Coakley, Celia Deane-Drummond, David Fergusson, David Knight, Christopher Southgate, Neil Spurway and Kenneth Wilson. The essays are organized around the theme of ‘natural theology’ -– the attempt to draw theological conclusions from reflection on the natural world. The essays cover historical, philosophical and theological perspectives, and explore some contemporary approaches to natural theology in the context of Darwinism.
