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First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Bates lived and studied in Amazonian South America for a total of
eleven years, and is still regarded as one of the world's
pioneering naturalists and entomologists. This classic two-volume
work elucidates his concept of mimetic resemblance--known to this
day as "Batesian mimicry"--and displays his significant
contribution to the early development of the theory of natural
selection.
This is a reprint of the Bates family copy, the exclusive property
of the Natural History Museum, and includes a family tree of the
Leicester branch of Bates family. The volumes are richly
illustrated with numerous plates and a foldout map of Bates'
journey along the Amazon.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
This charming book revolves around the two journals Bates produced
during his groundbreaking travels in the Amazon, and his classic
work The Naturalist on the River Amazons. Alongside specially
selected excerpts from his book are facsimile reproductions of the
pages from his journals demonstrating his talents as an artist as
well as a scientist. Bates, a trusted companion of Alfred Russel
Wallace, travelled with him to the Amazon in 1848. There he became
fascinated by close similarities in appearance between unrelated
butterflies. He found that so-called tasty species - those that are
sought after by predators - had evolved to look like toxic species
to escape being attacked. This idea became known as Batesian
mimicry. Bates spent a total of 11 years in the Amazon, exploring
the vast network of largely unvisited major rivers and their
tributaries, set in the world's largest area of tropical rain
forest in South America. By the time he returned to England in
1859, still only 34 years old, Bates had collected, by his own
estimate, some 712 species of mammals, reptiles, birds, fishes and
molluscs, and about 14,000 species of insects, of which no less
than 8,000 were previously unknown.
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