Tropical Nature, and Other Essays

So many of the most remarkable forms of life are now restricted to the tropics, and the relations of these to extinct types which once inhabited the temperate zones open up so many interesting questions as to the past history of the earth. This volume contains essays focusing on phenomena that exist in tropical nature. The materials of this volume were drawn from Wallace's 12 years of experience investigating the eastern and western tropics of the equatorial zone. This book serves as a great introduction to the conditions of the tropics and the phenomena of tropical life that exist within. Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist and biologist best known today for independently discovering the theory of evolution through natural selection before Charles Darwin. He was one of the most famous scientists in Britain during his time.