Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysRead Books Ltd, 25. mai 2016 - 418 pages This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1878 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Tropical Nature, and Other Essays' is a collection of essays including Wallace's observations on equatorial vegetation, animal life, and sexual. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of Llanbadoc, in Monmouthshire, Wales. Wallace was inspired by the travelling naturalists of the day and decided to begin his exploration career collecting specimens in the Amazon rainforest. He explored the Rio Negra for four years, making notes on the peoples and languages he encountered as well as the geography, flora, and fauna. While travelling, Wallace refined his thoughts about evolution and in 1858 he outlined his theory of natural selection in an article he sent to Charles Darwin. Wallace made a huge contribution to the natural sciences and he will continue to be remembered as one of the key figures in the development of evolutionary theory. |
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... southern tropic. In this favoured zone the heat is never oppressive, as it so often becomes on the borders of the tropics; and the large absolute amount of moisture always ... South America and in the Malay Archipelago. Over a large portion.
... southern tropic. In this favoured zone the heat is never oppressive, as it so often becomes on the borders of the tropics; and the large absolute amount of moisture always ... South America and in the Malay Archipelago. Over a large portion.
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Alfred Russel Wallace. America and in the Malay Archipelago. Over a large ... Southern Celebes; but in both cases the forest country in adjacent districts has a ... south of the equator, is a striking example of the need of vegetation to ...
Alfred Russel Wallace. America and in the Malay Archipelago. Over a large ... Southern Celebes; but in both cases the forest country in adjacent districts has a ... south of the equator, is a striking example of the need of vegetation to ...
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... south, we meet first with woody and then open country, soon changing into arid plains or even deserts which form an almost continuous band in the vicinity of the two tropics. On the line of the tropic of Cancer we have, in America the ...
... south, we meet first with woody and then open country, soon changing into arid plains or even deserts which form an almost continuous band in the vicinity of the two tropics. On the line of the tropic of Cancer we have, in America the ...
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... America the Grand Chaco desert and the Pampas; in Africa the Kalahari desert ... south as dry, cool air, and descends to the earth in the vicinity of the ... America and Northern EuroAsia, where they form the great northern forests of.
... America the Grand Chaco desert and the Pampas; in Africa the Kalahari desert ... south as dry, cool air, and descends to the earth in the vicinity of the ... America and Northern EuroAsia, where they form the great northern forests of.
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... South America he measured a palm, which was 192 English feet high. The leaves of palms are often of immense size. Those of the Manicaria saccifera of Para are thirty feet long and four or five feet wide, and are not pinnate but entire ...
... South America he measured a palm, which was 192 English feet high. The leaves of palms are often of immense size. Those of the Manicaria saccifera of Para are thirty feet long and four or five feet wide, and are not pinnate but entire ...
Contents
ANIMAL LIFE IN THE TROPICAL FORESTS | |
THE COLOURS OF ANIMALS AND SEXUAL SELECTION | |
THE COLOURS OF PLANTS AND THE ORIGIN OF | |
THE DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS AS INDICATING | |
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