Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science

by Carol Kaesuk Yoon

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0393338711

ISBN13:9780393338713

Release Date:August 2010

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Length:352 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 9.0"

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