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James T. Costa
A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveller, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selection
Alfred Russel Wallace (18231913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age. His…
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James T. Costa, Bobbi Angell
Uncover Darwin's most important writings about plants with this important collection featuring expert interpretations and rare illustrations.
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A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and co-discoverer of natural selection
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age. His…
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Darwin is credited with discovering evolution through natural selection, but Alfred Russel Wallace saw the same process at work in nature and elaborated the same theory. Dispelling misperceptions of Wallace…
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How Darwin found universal evolutionary truths in simple yet ingenious home-spun experiments.
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Charles Darwin
The Voyage of the Beagle is a vivid travel diary of Charles Darwin's sea voyage from the Cape de Verde Islands to Mauritius, and includes a detailed scientific field journal…
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is one of the most important and yet least read scientific works in the history of science. The Annotated Origin is a facsimile…
In his exploration of insect societies that don’t fit the eusocial schema, James T. Costa gives these interesting phenomena their due. He synthesizes the scattered literature about social phenomena across…
Alfred Russel Wallace
Marking A. R. Wallace’s death in 1913, James Costa presents in facsimile, with transcription and annotations, the Species Notebook of 1855-1859. These extensive, never-before-published notes from Wallace’s Malay expedition reveal…
