Natural Selection And Beyond The Intellectual Legacy Of Alfred Russel Wallace.
£25.00
Publisher
Oxford University Press.
Place
Oxford
Date
2008
Synopsis
Edited by charles h. smith and george beccaloni.
Item Description
Large 8vo. 10 x 7 inches. xxv + [1] + 482 pp. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. A fine copy. Illustrated by 8 pages of colour plates, 32 text figures and 2 tables. Decorated by chapter heading vignettes. Twenty one essays on the great naturalist and evolutionary theorist, Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), a polymath whose fame and influence in Victorian society are rarely recognised. They reveal the depth and variety of Wallace's interests including social as well as scientific issues and place him in his wider historical context, as part of a countercurrent of anti-materialism. The work is edited by two Wallace scholars, Charles Hyde Smith (b.1950) of Western Kentucky University, and George Beccaloni (also a contributor), entomologist at the Natural History Museum, London.
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