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单词 wallace
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Wallacen.

Brit. /ˈwɒlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈwɔləs/, /ˈwɑləs/
Etymology: < the name of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), British naturalist.
Used attributively or in the possessive to designate concepts originated by Wallace or related to his work.
a. Wallace effect n. the evolution of reproductive isolation between sympatric species.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > evolution > [noun] > processes or types of evolution
transmutation1626
substitution1822
subspeciation1826
metamorphosis1835
phytogenesis1847
phytogeny1850
anamorphosis1852
correlation1859
advergence1861
convergence1861
phylogeny1869
ontogeny1872
recapitulation1874
ontogenesis1875
phylogenesis1875
biogenesis1876
abiogenesis1884
anagenesis1889
tachygenesis1893
orthogenesis1895
adaptive radiation1898
speciation1906
microevolution1911
subspeciation1921
raciation1934
orthogenetics1937
encephalization1938
proterogenesis1938
allomorphosis1941
cladogenesis1953
Wallace effect1966
metachromism1968
punctuation1976
speciational evolution1988
tachygen-
1966 V. Grant in Amer. Naturalist 100 99 It seems fitting and desirable to designate the process of selection for reproductive isolation as the Wallace effect.
1981 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 68 1247/2 The sympatric origin of isolating mechanisms, the Wallace effect, postulates that those individuals in sympatric populations of the incipient species when crossed with members of the other species waste gametes in so doing, due to sterility or inviability of their progeny.
b. Wallace line n. (also Wallace's line) a hypothetical boundary proposed by Wallace in 1858 as separating the South-East Asian and Australasian biogeographical regions.
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the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > biogeographical zone > boundary
Wallace line1868
continental divide1869
timberline1896
tree-limit1934
1868 T. H. Huxley in Proc. Zool. Soc. 313 Passing south of India and Indo-Malaisia [sic], but north of the Nicobar islands, the boundary in question would coincide with what may be called ‘Wallace's line’, between the Indian and the Papuan divisions of the Malay archipelago.
1912 Rep. 81st Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1911 435 For fresh-water fishes Wallace's Line is..of fundamental importance.
1957 P. J. Darlington Zoogeogr. vii. 469 A small fraction of the Oriental mammal fauna extends for a considerable distance across Wallace's Line.
1958 A. Toynbee East to West xv. 44 Nor am I talking here of ‘the Wallace line’ between the gum trees and marsupial mammals of Australasia and the standard flora and fauna of the rest of the world.
1982 New Scientist 3 June 653/1 Examination of the fauna..on Bali and the adjacent islands led him to define the ‘Wallace Line’—the division between the Oriental fauna to the west and the Australasian forms to the east and north.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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