Alfred Russel Wallace: 110 books

Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist, considered as one of the greatest thinkers of the 19th century. This book treating about the Ice Age and its work, is one of his contributions to explain how changed the climate, mainly in the periods of glaciation, and how the phases of the ice age may have affected the earth.

Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection; his paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin's writings in 1858.

This book by Alfred Russel Wallace  treats the problem of the Origin of Species on the same general lines as were adopted by Darwin; but from the standpoint reached after nearly thirty years of discussion, with an abundance of new facts and the advocacy of many new or old theories. ...

Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection; his paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin's writings in 1858.

Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection; his paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin's writings in 1858.

Alfred Russel Wallace nacque l’8 gennaio 1823 ed è stato un naturalista, geografo, biologo, esploratore e antropologo gallese. Formulò una teoria dell'evoluzione per selezione naturale, simile a quella che nello stesso periodo stava elaborando Charles Darwin. Fu uno spiritualista e uno spiritista...

« Le livre dont voici une traduction est peut-être celui qui a contribué le plus efficacement à la diffusion en Angleterre du moderne spiritualisme. Indépendamment de ses qualités intrinsèques, qui certes sont considérables, il doit une bonne part de ce succès au nom de son auteur, l'un des...

Alfred Russel Wallace (Usk, 8 gennaio 1823 – Broadstone, 7 novembre 1913) è stato un naturalista e biogeografo gallese. Formulò una teoria dell'evoluzione per selezione naturale, simile a quella di Charles Darwin nello stesso periodo in cui lo stesso Darwin elaborava la propria. Fu uno spiritualista...

Racked with fever, virtually broke and earning a precarious living through sending back to London the plumes of beautiful birds, Wallace (1823-1913) ultimately became one of the most heroic and admirable of all scientist-explorers. Whether living with Hill Dyaks or hunting Orang-Utans or sailing on...

Il famoso studioso gallese Wallace con argomenti presentati come inoppugnabili, e citando con dovizia di particolari una ricca casistica, si propone di dimostrare in maniera incontrovertibile l'esistenza dei fantasmi Indice dei contenuti: Fede vecchia e fede nuova Dubbi e incertezze Scienza...

The present Depression of Trade is remarkable, not so much for its intensity or for its extent—in both of which respects it has been equalled or surpassed on previous occasions, but for its persistence during the long period of eleven years. The late Professor Fawcett, in his Free Trade and Protection...

My readers will naturally ask why I have delayed writing this book for six years after my return; and I feel bound to give them full satisfaction on this point.

Every naturalist who has directed his attention to the subject of the geographical distribution of animals and plants, must have been interested in the singular facts which it presents. Many of these facts are quite different from what would have been anticipated, and have hitherto been considered as...

Though much of what we term morality has no absolute sanction in human nature, yet it is to some extent, and perhaps very largely, based upon it. It will be well, therefore, to consider briefly the nature and probable origin of what we term "character"—in individuals, in societies, and especially in...