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On The Law Which Has Regulated The Introduction Of New Species (1855), Alfred Russel Wallace Jan 2009

On The Law Which Has Regulated The Introduction Of New Species (1855), Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace Classic Writings

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Alfred Russel Wallace, Journalist, Charles H. Smith Oct 2008

Alfred Russel Wallace, Journalist, Charles H. Smith

DLPS Faculty Publications

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'Hussel,' 'Bussel' And 'Kussel,' Or, Using Google Books To Stalk The Elusive Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles H. Smith Apr 2008

'Hussel,' 'Bussel' And 'Kussel,' Or, Using Google Books To Stalk The Elusive Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles H. Smith

DLPS Faculty Publications

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Further Additions To The Bibliography Of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), Charles H. Smith Jan 2004

Further Additions To The Bibliography Of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), Charles H. Smith

DLPS Faculty Publications

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Biodiversity: The World Of Life, Charles H. Smith May 2001

Biodiversity: The World Of Life, Charles H. Smith

DLPS Faculty Publications

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Historical Biogeography: Geography As Evolution, Evolution As Geography, Charles H. Smith Jan 1989

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; …