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Natural selection and tropical nature:

essays on descriptive and theoretical biology
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Macmillan and Co., 1891 - Science - 492 pages

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Contents

On the Law which has Regulated the Introduction
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On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely
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Mimicry and other Protective Resemblances among
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TitleNatural selection and tropical nature: essays on descriptive and theoretical biology
AuthorAlfred Russel Wallace
Editionreprint
PublisherMacmillan and Co., 1891
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedSep 6, 2007
Length492 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Natural history
Natural selection
Science / Life Sciences / Evolution
Tropics
Zoogeography
  
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