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Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
Naming Nature The Clash Between Instinct and Science
Author: Carol K. Yoon, Carol Kaesuk Yoon
The surprising, untold story about the poetic and deeply human (cognitive) capacity to name the natural world. Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus set out to order and name the entire living world and ended up founding a science: the field of scientific classification, or taxonomy. Yet, in spit...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393061970
ISBN-10: 0393061973
Publication Date: 8/24/2009
Pages: 352
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Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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