Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
Carol Kaesuk Yoon
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.
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2010
- ISBN-13
- 9780393338713
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- TaxonomyHistory of scienceBiological classification
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyShortlisted(2009)
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