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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Buckingham Press, T.H.E.

ISBN-100956071619

ISBN-139780956071613

eBay Product ID (ePID)109423454

Product Key Features

Book TitleButterfly Hunter : the Life of Henry Walter Bates

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCultural Heritage, Life Sciences / Evolution, Animals / Butterflies & Moths, Environmentalists & Naturalists, Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology

Publication Year2014

IllustratorYes

GenreNature, Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorAnthony Crawforth

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight28.4 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2009-510029

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsHenry Walter Bates (1825-1892) led an extraordinary life, around the time of Darwin. He was dedicated to locating and identifying butterflies, particularly in South America. Crawforth (PhD candidate, biography, Buckingham U) offers this fascinating history discussing the evolution of an evolutionary man, his origins and younger days in Leicester, his life-changing journey to South America, his travels throughout the landscape of South America in search of his butterflies, the theories he developed and promoted, and, by extension, his work and his role in the perspective of Darwin.

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal508.092

SynopsisThis is the epic, true and long overdue story of the young explorer who put forward the first ever case for the creation of a new species, providing what Charles Darwin called the "beautiful proof" for Natural Selection. The major discovery of Batesian Mimicry was developed from Bates's fascinating 11-year journey and study of butterflies in the Amazon rainforest. He noted how certain animals adopt the look of others to deceive predators and gain an advantage to survive. Little known to the public, Bates made other crucial contributions to biology: he collected over 14,000 specimens, of which over 8,000 were new to science at the time. He went on to become the administrator for the Royal Geographical Society and transformed it into an institution which combined exploration with academic research, and was responsible for placing geography on the school curriculum. This important book reassesses Bates's life and finally places both the man and his work in their rightful place alongside the other greats., This is the epic, true and long overdue story of the young explorer who put forward the first ever case for the creation of a new species, providing what Charles Darwin called the "beautiful proof" for Natural Selection.

LC Classification NumberQH31.B26C73 2009