Alfred Russel Wallace
Subtitle: explorer, evolutionist, public intellectual - a thinker for our own times?
By: Ted Benton
Publisher: Siri Scientific Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Manchester, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780957453029
Subjects: Naturalists; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-223).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Life Part 1: Childhood, surveying, tropical journeys and the species question; title: Life Part 2: Science, spiritualism, land and socialism; title: Field naturalist to scientific revolutionary: natural selection and the geography of life; title: Sexual selection: female choice and the evolution of beauty; title: Above or part of nature? Wallace versus Darwin on human evolution; title: Politics 1: Owenism, moral 'savages' and epping forest; title: Politics 2: Land nationalisation and socialism; title: Instead of a conclustion: some reflections on Wallace's legacy.