The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface

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Cambridge University Press, 3. nov 2011 - 640 pages
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was a British biologist and explorer whose theories of evolution, arrived at independently, caused Darwin to allow their famous joint paper to go forward to the Linnean Society in 1858. Considered the nineteenth century's leading expert on the geographical distribution of animals, Wallace carried out extensive fieldwork in areas as diverse as North and South America, Africa, China, India and Australia to document the habitats, breeding, migration and feeding behaviour of thousands of species around the world, and the influence of environmental conditions on their survival. First published in 1876, this two-volume set presents Wallace's findings, and represents a landmark in the study of zoology, evolutionary biology and palaeontology which remains relevant to scholars in these fields today. Volume 2 explores the distribution of primates, the habitats and characteristics of mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and insects, and patterns of migration.

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Ge neral Zoological Features of the Neotropical Region p 5Distinctive Charac
15
Past History of the N eotropical Region p 80Table I Families of Animals
113
Zoological Characteristics of the Nearctic Region p 115List of Typical
120
nian Subregion p l27The Rocky Mountain Subregion p 129The
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CHAPTER XVI
154
PART IV
165
Primates p 170Genernl Remarks on the Distribution of Primates p 179
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Ophidiap 372 General Remarks on the Distribution of Ophidia p 386
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CHAPTER XX
424
Acanthopterygii p 424Acanthopterygii Pharyngognathi p 437Anacan
460
THE DISTRIBUTION OF SOME OF THE MORE IMPORTANT FAMILIES
468
Lepidoptera p 470General Remarks on the Distribution of the Diurnal Lapi
486
CHAPTER XXII
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Cephalopoda p 505Gasteropoda p 507Pulmonifera p 512Genera1
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Mammalia p 540Lincs of Migration of the Marnmalia p 544Birds p 545
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Passcres p 255General Remarks on the Distribution of the Passeres p 299
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CHAPTER XIX
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