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Tropical Nature and Other Essays

By: Alfred Russel Wallace(Author)
356 pages
Tropical Nature and Other Essays
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  • Tropical Nature and Other Essays ISBN: 9781108053136 Paperback Jun 2013 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
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A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection.

Building on the work of Darwin and Mendel, the biologist William Bateson (1861–1926) was the first scientist to combine the study of variation, heredity and evolution, and to use the term 'genetics'. Tropical Nature and Other Essays was first published in 1894 after many years of experimental and theoretical work – particularly in the embryology of the acorn worm genus Balanoglossus – which had been guided by the principle that embryonic developmental stages replay the evolutionary transitions of adult forms of an organism's ancestors. Bateson was the first to challenge this theory, which made him unpopular among the scientific establishment of the time, but he was proved right. Organising his material by anatomical sections, Bateson explores speciation, phylogeny and discontinuous and continuous variation among a wide range of species, including vertebrates, invertebrates and plants. This pioneering work offers great insight into how the study of genetics and inheritance itself evolved.

 

Contents

Preface

1. The climate and physical aspects of the equatorial zone
2. Equatorial vegetation
3. Animal life in the tropical forests
4. Humming-birds: as illustrating the luxuriance of tropical nature
5. The colours of animals and sexual selection
6. The colours of plants and the origin of the colour-sense
7. By-paths in the domain of biology
8. The distribution of animals as indicating geographical changes

Index

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By: Alfred Russel Wallace(Author)
356 pages
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