How Zoologists Organize Things
The Art of Classification
Humankind's fascination with the animal kingdom began as a matter of survival - differentiating the edible from the toxic, the ferocious from the tractable. Since then, our compulsion to catalogue wildlife has played a key role in growing our understanding of the planet and ourselves, inspiring religious beliefs and evolving scientific theories. The book unveils wild truths and even wilder myths about animals, as perpetuated by zoologists - revealing how much more there is to learn, and unlearn. Long before Darwin, our ancestors were obsessed with the visual similarities and differences between the animals. Early scientists could sense there…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7112-5227-1
- EAN: 9780711252271
- Produktnummer: 35541291
- Verlag: Aurum
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 180 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 29'246 KB
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David Bainbridge is a reproductive biologist, popular science writer, and the Clinical Veterinary Anatomist, the world-top-ranked Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. As well as many academic and clinical publications, he has written seven popular science books, widely reviewed, discussed and translated. He is a fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, whose alumni include John Ray, the originator of the biological term species. David Bainbridge is the definitive voice on zoology classification.
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