Reason and Revolution: Extraordinary Works from a Distinguished Private Collection. Part 1

Reason and Revolution: Extraordinary Works from a Distinguished Private Collection. Part 1

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 143. Darwin and Wallace | On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties ... [1858–1859], in: Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1859, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection.

Darwin and Wallace | On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties ... [1858–1859], in: Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1859, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection

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Darwin, Charles, and Alfred Russel Wallace

"On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection" [1858–1859] pp. 45–62, contained in: Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9. London: Longman, Brown, Green et al, 1859

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