All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950

by Robert E. Kohler

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We humans share Earth with 1.4 million known species and millions more species that are still unrecorded. Yet we know surprisingly little about the practical work that produced the vast inventory we have to date of our fellow creatures. How were these multitudinous creatures collected, recorded, and named? When, and by whom?

Here a distinguished historian of science tells the story of the modern discovery of biodiversity. Robert Kohler...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691125392

ISBN13:9780691125398

Release Date:August 2006

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:384 Pages

Weight:1.75 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"

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