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The Malay Archipelago - The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature (Paperback)
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The Malay Archipelago - The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology, Volume 2
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Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was a British naturalist who is
best remembered as the co-discoverer, with Darwin, of natural
selection. His extensive fieldwork and advocacy of the theory of
evolution led to him being considered one of the nineteenth
century's foremost biologists. These volumes, first published in
1869, contain Wallace's acclaimed and highly influential account of
extensive fieldwork he undertook in modern Indonesia, Malaysia and
New Guinea between 1854 and 1862. Wallace describes his travels
around the island groups, depicting the unusual animals and insects
he encountered and providing ethnographic descriptions of the
indigenous peoples. Wallace's analysis of biogeographic patterns in
Indonesia (later termed the Wallace Line) profoundly influenced
contemporary and later evolutionary and geological thought
concerning both Indonesia and other areas of the world where
similar patterns were found. Volume 2 covers the Molucca Islands
and New Guinea.
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