Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology - Couverture rigide

Wallace, Alfred Russel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1859846521 ISBN 13 : 9781859846520

Editeur : Verso Books, 2002

Synopsis

Alfred Russel Wallace's reputation has been based on the fact that, at the age of thirty-five and stricken with malaria in the Moluccan Islands, he stumbled independently on the theory of natural selection. Andrew Berry's anthology rescues Wallace's legacy, showing Wallace to be far more than just the co-discoverer of natural selection. Wallace was a brilliant and wide ranging scientist, a passionate social reformer and a gifted writer. The eloquence that has made his The Malay Archipelago a classic of travel writing is a prominent feature too of his extraordinary forward-thinking writing on socialism, imperialism and pacifism. Wallace's opinions on women's suffrage, on land reform, on the roles of church and aristocracy in a parliamentary democracy, on publicly funded education-to name a few of the issues he addressed-remain as fresh and as topical today as they were when they were written.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 - 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He is best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory.

Andrew Berry is a research associate at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He contributes to, among others, the London Review of Books, Nature, Slate and The New York Observer.

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University. He published over twenty books, received the National Book and National Book Critics Circle Awards, and a MacArthur Fellowship.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1859846521
• ISBN 13: 9781859846520
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Éditeur: Berry Andrew
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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