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Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science

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Finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology. “A lively blend of popular scientific history and cultural criticism.”—New York Times Book Review

Biologist Carol Kaesuk Yoon explores the historical tension between evolutionary biology and taxonomy. Carl Linnaeus struggled in the eighteenth century to define species in light of their mutability while still relying on intuitive, visual judgments. As taxonomy modernized, it moved into labs, yielding results counterintuitive to humanity’s innate predisposition to order the world. By conceding scientific authority to taxonomists, Yoon argues, we’ve contributed to our own alienation from nature. 27 black-and-white illustrations
Request Code : ZLIBIO1115795
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Year:
2010
Edition:
Reprint
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Language:
English
Pages:
352
ISBN 10:
0393338711
ISBN 13:
9780393338713
ISBN:
0393338711,9780393338713

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