by Robert A. Wallace · Harper Collins Pub. · tapa dura · ISBN 9780673383204
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«Biology, the World of Life» is the biology textbook by Robert A. Wallace, published by Harper Collins Pub. in 1990 in hardback (695 pages, in English).
Textbook offering an overview of biology, with colour photographs and figures illustrating key concepts of the discipline. The content covers the diversity of life and its fundamental processes. The cover shows tropical vegetation and frogs on leaves, in keeping with the study of living beings.
Fifth edition of this textbook, originally published in 1975 and reissued in 1990. Includes appendix and bibliography.
Aimed at biology students and readers seeking a general introduction to the life sciences.
Alfred Russel Wallace was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection; his 1858 paper on the subject was published that year alongside extracts from Charles Darwin's writings on the topic. It spurred Darwin to set aside the "big species book" he was drafting and to quickly write an abstract of it, which was published in 1859 as On the Origin of Species.
