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In retrospect: The Malay Archipelago

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David Quammen re-enters the 'Milky Way of land masses' evoked by Alfred Russel Wallace's masterpiece of biogeography.

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  1. David Quammen is a writer. His most recent book is Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. His 1996 book, The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, features Wallace.,

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Quammen, D. In retrospect: The Malay Archipelago. Nature 496, 165–166 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/496165a

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