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Radical by Nature : The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace /

"A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and co-discoverer of natural selectionAlfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age. His expeditions to remote Amazonia and southeast Asia were the stuff of legend. A colle...

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Autor principal: Costa, James T., 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • A happy but downwardly-mobile family
  • Taking measure in the borderlands
  • Beetling and big questions
  • Paradise gained ...
  • ... And paradise lost
  • Down but not out
  • Sarawak and the law
  • Crossing the line(s)
  • Eureka: Wallace triumphant
  • Island hopper
  • First Darwinian
  • A tale of two Wallaces?
  • A socially engaged scientist
  • Onward and upward.