On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1858 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ''On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type'' is a short article on variation and evolutionary theory. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of Llanbadoc, in Monmouthshire, Wales. Wallace was i...