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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island group of southeast Asia between Australia and the Asian mainland and separating the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It includes Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia
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One group of critics has commissioned computer experts with specialised anti-plagiarism software to scour Darwin's book, published in 1859, for similarities to a paper released the year before by Alfred Russel Wallace, a naturalist who worked for eight years in what he termed the Malay Archipelago - primarily Indonesia and Malaysia.
Darwiniana 2009
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Mr. Windsor Earl has made some striking observations on this head, since greatly extended by Mr. Wallaces admirable researches, in regard to the great Malay Archipelago, which is traversed near Celebes by a space of deep ocean, and this separates two widely distinct mammalian faunas.
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Mr Windsor Earl has made some striking observations on this head in regard to the great Malay Archipelago, which is traversed near Celebes by a space of deep ocean; and this space separates two widely distinct mammalian faunas.
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A few weeks later and they were drawing near to that great concourse of islands known as the Malay Archipelago, where nature is exceptionally beautiful, but man is rather vile.
The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables 1859
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Mr. Windsor Earl has made some striking observations on this head in regard to the great Malay Archipelago, which is traversed near Celebes by a space of deep ocean; and this space separates two widely distinct mammalian faunas.
On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 12 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859
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Mr. Windsor Earl has made some striking observations on this head in regard to the great Malay Archipelago, which is traversed near Celebes by a space of deep ocean; and this space separates two widely distinct mammalian faunas.
On the origin of species Charles Darwin 1845
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Mr. Windsor Earl has made some striking observations on this head in regard to the great Malay Archipelago, which is traversed near
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) Charles Darwin 1845
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Wallace, on the other hand, had come up with his version of natural selection, very much similar to that of Darwin's, several months earlier while doing fieldwork in the Malay Archipelago and communicated it to Darwin in a now famous letter*.
A belated celebration of the Evolution Day AYDIN 2009
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Geographynote: Timor comes from the Malay word for "East"; the island of Timor is part of the Malay Archipelago and is the largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands
Timor-Leste 2008
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The fauna is also distinctive, with characteristics of the islands of the Malay Archipelago as well as the mountains of China and India.
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