Naming Nature The Clash Between Instinct And Science
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Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
Author | : Carol Kaesuk Yoon |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2010-08-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393338711 |
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Examines the history of taxonomy, describing the quest of scientists to name and classify living things from Carl Linnaeus to early twenty-first-century scientists who rely more on microscopic evidence than their senses, which has encouraged an indifference to nature that is responsible for the extinction of many species.
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