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This volume collects essays written by Alfred Russel Wallace regarding his independent discovery and development of the theory of natural selection. The author provides corrected and expanded versions of his previous scientific writings to demonstrate the scope and application of his findings.

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Table of Contents

INDEX.

  • Man, does he build by reason or imitation, 212; his works mainly imitative, 225; antiquity of, 303, 322; difference of opinion as to his origin, 304; unity or plurality of species, 305; persistence of type of, 306; importance of mental and moral characters, 312; his dignity and supremacy, 324; his influence on nature, 326; his future development, 326; range of intellectual power in, 339; rudiments of all the higher faculties in savage, 341; his feet and hands, difficulties on the theory of natural selection, 349; his voice, 350; his mental faculties, 351; difficulty as to the origin of the moral sense in, 259; development of, probably directed by a superior intelligence, 359.
  • Mantidæ, adaptive colouring of, 64; mimicking white ants, 98.
  • Malacoderms, a protected group, 93.
  • Maluridæ, 255.
  • Matter, the nature of, 363; Mr. Bayma on, 363; is force, 365.
  • Mechanitis and Methona, mimicked by Leptalis, 83.
  • Mecocerus, dimorphism of, 155.
  • Mecocerus gazella, 94.
  • Megacephalon, 196.
  • Megapodidæ, sexual colouring and nidification of, 246.
  • Meropogon, 196.
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