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On the Organic Law of Change - A Facsimile Edition and Annotated Transcription of Alfred Russel Wallace's Species Notebook of 1855-1859 (Hardcover)
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On the Organic Law of Change - A Facsimile Edition and Annotated Transcription of Alfred Russel Wallace's Species Notebook of 1855-1859 (Hardcover)
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A giant of the discipline of biogeography and co-discoverer of
natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace was the most famous
naturalist in the world when he died in 1913. To mark the
centennial of Wallace's death, James Costa offers an elegant
edition of the "Species Notebook" of 1855-1859, which Wallace kept
during his legendary expedition in peninsular Malaysia, Indonesia,
and western New Guinea. Presented in facsimile with text
transcription and annotations, this never-before-published document
provides a new window into the travels, personal trials, and
scientific genius of the co-discoverer of natural selection. In one
section, headed "Note for Organic Law of Change"--an extended
critique of geologist Charles Lyell's anti-evolutionary
arguments--Wallace sketches a book he would never write, owing to
the unexpected events of 1858. In that year he sent to Charles
Darwin an essay announcing his discovery of the mechanism for
species change: natural selection. Darwin's friends Lyell and the
botanist Joseph Hooker proposed a "delicate arrangement": a joint
reading at the Linnean Society of his essay with Darwin's earlier
private writings on the subject. Darwin would publish On the Origin
of Species in 1859, to much acclaim; pre-empted, Wallace's first
book on evolution waited two decades, but by then he had abandoned
his original concept. On the Organic Law of Change realizes in
spirit the project Wallace left unfinished, and asserts his stature
as not only a founder of biogeography and the preeminent tropical
biologist of his day but as Darwin's equal among the pioneers of
evolution.
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