Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science

Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
Author: Carol Kaesuk Yoon
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2010-08-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0393338711

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Examines the history of taxonomy, describing the quest of scientists to name and classify living things from Carl Linnaeus to early twenty-first-century scientists who rely more on microscopic evidence than their senses, which has encouraged an indifference to nature that is responsible for the extinction of many species.


Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: Carol Kaesuk Yoon
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-02 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Examines the history of taxonomy, describing the quest of scientists to name and classify living things from Carl Linnaeus to early twenty-first-century scienti
Naming Nature
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Carol Kaesuk Yoon
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology: the surprising, untold story about the poetic and deeply human (cognitive) capacit
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Carol Kaesuk Yoon
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-24 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology: the surprising, untold story about the poetic and deeply human (cognitive) capacit
The Art of Naming
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: Michael Ohl
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-26 - Publisher: MIT Press

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From Tyrannosaurus rex to Heteropoda davidbowie: scientific naming as a joyful and creative act. Tyrannosaurus rex. Homo sapiens. Heteropoda davidbowie. Behind
Naming Infinity
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Loren Graham
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-31 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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In 1913, Russian imperial marines stormed an Orthodox monastery at Mt. Athos, Greece, to haul off monks engaged in a dangerously heretical practice known as Nam