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Green Laurels: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Naturalists
Green Laurels The Lives and Achievements of the Great Naturalists Author:Donald Culross Peattie Green Laurels is a book written for readers of popular science. It is a readble story of the lives and works of a dozen or two of the most important naturalists, in contrast to biologists. Accounts are given of Malpighi, Buffon, Linnaeus, Lamarck, Cuvier, Bartram, Wilson, Audubon, Say, Rafinesque, Darwin, and Wallace. The stories have human inte... more »rest and the science is non-technical. To many thinking readers they will be fascinating. Peattie was a gifted writer. Those readers that believe "evolution is only a theory" perhaps should stay away, as Peattie says things like, "the fact of natural selection."« less