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Additional Physical Format: | Print version |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alfred Russel Wallace |
ISBN: | 9781139097109 1139097105 9781108037846 1108037844 |
OCLC Number: | 1060648337 |
Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (576 Seiten) |
Contents: | Preface; Part I. The Principles and General Phenomena of Distribution: 1. Introductory; 2. The means of dispersal and the migration of animals; 3. Distribution as affected by the conditions and changes of the earth's surface; 4. On zoological regions; 5. Classification as affecting the study of geographical distribution; Part II. On the Distribution of Extinct Animals: 6. The extinct mammalia of the Old World; 7. Extinct mammalia of the New World; 8. Various extinct animals; - and on the antiquity of the genera of insects and land-mollusca; Part III. Zoological Geography: A Review of the Chief Forms of Life in the Several Regions and Sub-Regions, with the Indications They Afford of Geographical Mutations: 9. The order of succession of the region. Cosmopolitan groups of animals. Tables of distribution; 10. The Palaearctic region; 11. The Ethiopian region; 12. The Oriental region; 13. The Australian region; Index. |
Series Title: | Cambridge library collection. Zoology |
Responsibility: | Alfred Russel Wallace. |
Abstract:
First published in 1876, this comprehensive two-volume set presents Alfred Russel Wallace's findings on the distribution of thousands of animal and bird species. Volume 1 explores classification, migration and geological conditions in a diverse range of zoological regions worldwide, contributing to a landmark study in zoology and evolutionary biology.
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