Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
ISBN-13:
9780393338713
ISBN-10:
0393338711
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Carol Kaesuk Yoon
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
352 pages
Category:
Taxonomic Classification
,
Biological Sciences
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ISBN-13:
9780393338713
ISBN-10:
0393338711
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Carol Kaesuk Yoon
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
352 pages
Category:
Taxonomic Classification
,
Biological Sciences
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Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science (ISBN-13: 9780393338713 and ISBN-10: 0393338711), written by authors
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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
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