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nydus/Contributions to the Theory of Natural SelectionPublic

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.

  • Midas dives, 97.
  • Mimeta, mimicking Tropidorhynchus, 104.
  • Mimicry, meaning of the word, 74; theory of, 76; among Lepidoptera, 77; how it acts as a protection, 80, 81; of other insects by Lepidoptera, 89; among beetles, 91; of other insects by beetles, 95; of insects by species of other orders, 97; among the vertebrata, 99; among snakes, 101; among tree frogs, 103; among birds, 103; among mammals, 107; objections to the theory of, 108; by female insects, 110; among Papilionidæ, 179; never occurs in the male only, 260.
  • Momotidæ, sexual colouring and nidification of, 241.
  • Montrouzier, M., on butterflies of Woodlark Island, 152.
  • Moral sense, difficulty as to the origin of, 352.
  • Morphos, how protected, 73.
  • Murray, Mr. Andrew, objections to theory of mimicry, 108.
  • Muscicapidæ, sexual colouring and nidification of, 245.
  • Musophagidæ, sexual colouring and nidification of, 242.
  • Napeogenes, all the species are mimickers, 85.
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