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Early Humboldtian Influences On Alfred Russel Wallace's Scheme Of Nature [Presented At The Alfred Russel Wallace And His Legacy Royal Society Of London Meeting, 21 October 2013], Charles H. Smith
DLPS Faculty Publications
Alfred Russel Wallace’s 1858 Ternate paper on natural selection is a famous work in the history of science. Beyond his co-discovery of the principle, moreover, Wallace is known for a large number of early applications of the idea, both to biological and biogeographical subjects. Yet how much do we really know about Wallace’s own evolution of thought, and his actual intentions before his views were swallowed up by the inertia of Darwin’s revolution? A number of differences between Wallace’s and Darwin’s views are apparent and have been much treated over the years, but related discussions dwell more on effects than …
Wallace: The Review, And Wallace: The Preview, Charles H. Smith
Wallace: The Review, And Wallace: The Preview, Charles H. Smith
DLPS Faculty Publications
In this essay commemorating the one hundred year anniversary of his death, Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) is remembered for his main contributions to biogeography, and pointed to as a possible source of inspiration for future work in that field. As one of the science’s “fathers,” Wallace established both methods for study and a long-lived geographical systemization of animal distribution patterns. His efforts, moreover, may yet have the potential to inspire further new studies in the subject.
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; …
A System Of World Mammal Faunal Regions Pt. 1. Logical And Statistical Derivation Of The Regions, Charles H. Smith
A System Of World Mammal Faunal Regions Pt. 1. Logical And Statistical Derivation Of The Regions, Charles H. Smith
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A System Of World Mammal Faunal Regions Pt. 2.The Distance Decay Effect Upon Inter-Regional Affinities, Charles H. Smith
A System Of World Mammal Faunal Regions Pt. 2.The Distance Decay Effect Upon Inter-Regional Affinities, Charles H. Smith
DLPS Faculty Publications
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