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Part I: Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection Part II: On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870 (Volume IX)

By Charles Darwin , Alfred Russel Wallace

Book information

Year
2003
ISBN
0415327393, 9780415327398
Open Library ID
OL7491727M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1459256 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
448\230
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Wallace noticed on expeditions to the Amazon and the Malay archipelego that mammals in Southeast Asia are more advanced than their Australian cousins. His suggestion was that the two continents had split before the better adapted mammals had evolved in Asia. The isolated Australian marsupials were able to thrive, whilst those in Asia were driven to extinction by competition from more advanced mammals. This led to his theory of natural selection, which he presented to the Linnean Society in 1858 with Charles Darwin. This volume reprints those papers presented to the Linnean Society.

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