WALLACE, Alfred Russel.

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Island Life: or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, First edition of one of the author's major works. It includes the first theory of continental glaciation based on a combination of geographical and astronomical causes, a discussion of island classification, and a survey of worldwide island floras and faunas.The father of bio- and zoogeography, Wallace undertook extensive fieldwork, including in the Amazon and the Malay Archipelago. Island Life discusses islands such as the Galápagos and Madagascar and the differences in the species that inhabit them. It supplements Wallace's earlier work, The Geographical Distribution of Animals (1876), which was the standard text on zoogeography in the 19th and early-20th centuries.

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