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Author Costa, James T., 1963- author.

Title Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of species / James T. Costa.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.

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 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  576.82 COSTA    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-315) and index.
Contents Alfred Russel Wallace : a short biography / by Andrew Berry -- Introduction -- Granted the law : Alfred Russel Wallace's evolutionary travels -- The consilient Mr. Wallace : transmutation and related themes of Wallace's Species notebook -- Wallace and Darwin : parallels, intersections, and departures on the evolutionary road -- Two indefatigable naturalists : Wallace and Darwin's watershed papers -- A striking coincidence : The Wallace and Darwin papers of 1858 compared -- True with a vengeance : from delicate arrangement to conspiracy : a guide -- Coda : the force of admiration.
Subject Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. On the origin of species.
Evolution (Biology) -- History -- 19th century.
Natural selection -- History -- 19th century.
Naturalists -- England -- Biography.
ISBN 9780674729698 (alk. paper)
0674729692 (alk. paper)
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