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Dispelling the darkness : voyage in the Malay archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin /

"The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness."--T.H. Huxley (1887). Darwin is on...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Van Wyhe, John, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Hackensack] New Jersey : World Scientific, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • ch. 1. Great expectations
  • ch. 2. Empires of steam
  • ch. 3. Singapore
  • ch. 4. Malacca and Borneo
  • ch. 5. Testing the waters
  • ch. 6. Crossing the line
  • ch. 7. In search of paradise
  • ch. 8. Struggle and spice
  • ch. 9. The longest day
  • ch. 10. Darwin's delay
  • ch. 11. Crossing back
  • ch. 12. Counting up.