"Amazon River Naturalist" - Amazon River Naturalist

…After arriving at the mouth of the Amazon in May 1848, Wallace continued his journey up the Amazon River, collecting more than 14,700 animal specimens, including 14,000 insect species, before returning to the United States in 1859. His only book detailing the collection, The Naturalist of the Amazon, contains numerous examples supporting the theory of natural selection, but he is particularly famous for his discovery of mimicry in butterflies, which is still known today as Batesian mimicry. [Mori Mitsuo] …

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…1848年5月にアマゾン河口に到着して以来，ウォーレスが帰国後もアマゾン川遡行の旅を続け，59年に昆虫1万4000種を含めて1万4700種以上の動物標本を採集して帰国。採集行の詳細を記した唯一の著書《アマゾン河の博物学者》には，自然淘汰説を裏づける数多くの事例が収められているが，チョウ類における擬態の発見はとくに有名で，今日でもベーツ型擬態の名が残っている。【森 三男】。…

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