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1) Is Mars Habitable?: A Critical Examination of Professor Percival Lowell's Book "Mars and its Canal
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'Is Mars Habitable?' is an essay on the possibilities of organic life surviving on the red planet.
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This work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1893 and it is now republished with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Social Quagmire and the Way Out of it' is an essay on the social problems of 19th century Britain in relation to its American counterparts.
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This work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1890 and it is now republished with a brand new introductory biography. 'Human Selection' is an essay on the future of human evolution in relation to Darwin's suggestion that natural selection was having a reduced or non-existent effect on modern humanity.
8) Monkeys
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'Monkeys' is an article that appeared in Popular Science Monthly and details the characteristics and geographical distribution of many species of monkey.
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This work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1916 and it is now republished with a brand new introductory biography. 'Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1.' is a collection of correspondence between Wallace and other scientists, including Charles Darwin.
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This work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1866 and it is now republished with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Scientific Aspect of the Supernatural' is an essay in which Wallace presents examples of evidence for the existence of the supernatural.
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This work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1895 and it is now republished with a brand new introductory biography. 'Natural Selection and Tropical Nature Essays on Descriptive and Theoretical Biology' is a collection of essays that detail Wallace's observations of various bird species and outlines some of his ideas relating to evolutionary theory.
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