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On The Zoological Geography Of The Malay Archipelago (1859), Alfred Russel Wallace
On The Zoological Geography Of The Malay Archipelago (1859), Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace Classic Writings
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On The Monkeys Of The Amazon (1852), Alfred Russel Wallace
On The Monkeys Of The Amazon (1852), Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace Classic Writings
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On The Tendency Of Varieties To Depart Indefinitely From The Original Type (1858), Alfred Russel Wallace
On The Tendency Of Varieties To Depart Indefinitely From The Original Type (1858), Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace Classic Writings
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On The Law Which Has Regulated The Introduction Of New Species (1855), Alfred Russel Wallace
On The Law Which Has Regulated The Introduction Of New Species (1855), Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace Classic Writings
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Historical Biogeography: Geography As Evolution, Evolution As Geography, Charles H. Smith
Historical Biogeography: Geography As Evolution, Evolution As Geography, Charles H. Smith
DLPS Faculty Publications
Despite a number of advances in recent years, biogeography remains a field with a poorly developed philosophical core. As a result, its historical and ecological sides remain as isolated from one another as ever. In this essay I argue that a more unified approach to biogeographic studies will become possible only when workers realise that it is necessary to reject absolute space, "geography as handmaiden" approaches to distribution problems in favour of structuralist models compatible with both probabilistic spatial interaction and deterministic phylogenetic kinds of thinking. Pros and cons of regionalist, vicariance, and panbiogeographic approaches are weighed in this regard; …