Radical by nature : the revolutionary life of Alfred Russel Wallace

A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selection. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age. His expeditions to remote Amazonia and southeast Asia were the stuff of legend. A collector...

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Autor principal: Costa, James T., 1963-...., biologiste
Format: Livre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press 2023.
Paris : Cyberlibris
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Edition sous un autre format:• Radical by nature, the revolutionary life of Alfred Russel Wallace, James T. Costa, 2023, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1 volume (xiii-515 pages-[16] pages de planches), 978-0-691-23379-6
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