The Development of Biological Systematics: Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, Nature, and the Natural System
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A reevaluation of the history of biological systematics that discusses the formative years of the so-called natural system of classification in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Shows how classifications came to be treated as conventions; systematic practice was not linked to clearly articulated theory; there was general confusion over the "shape" of nature; botany, elements of natural history, and systematics were conflated; and systematics...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231064403
ISBN13:9780231064408
Release Date:April 1994
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:616 Pages
Weight:2.35 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"
Age Range:22 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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