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Island Life; Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras

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Island Life; Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras

Alfred Russel Wallace

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Why do islands hold plants and animals found nowhere else? Alfred Russel Wallace answers with the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, folding in a bold attempt to solve the puzzle of ancient geological climates and ice ages. The masterwork of island biogeography, still quoted today. Sail out to where evolution runs its own experiments.

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76 chapters

  1. 1FRONTISPIECE
  2. 2ISLAND LIFE
  3. 3THE PHENOMENA AND CAUSES OF
  4. 4INSULAR FAUNAS AND FLORAS
  5. 5INCLUDING A REVISION AND ATTEMPTED SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF
  6. 6GEOLOGICAL CLIMATES
  7. 7ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
  8. 8SECOND AND REVISED EDITION
  9. 9London MACMILLAN AND CO.
  10. 10AND NEW YORK
  11. 111895
  12. 12SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER,
  13. 13WHO, MORE THAN ANY OTHER WRITER, HAS ADVANCED OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS, AND ESPECIALLY OF INSULAR FLORAS,
  14. 14I Dedicate this Volume;
  15. 15ON A KINDRED SUBJECT, AS A TOKEN OF ADMIRATION AND REGARD.
  16. 16CORRECTIONS IN PRESENT ISSUE.
  17. 17PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
  18. 18PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

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