The essential naturalist : timeless readings in natural history /

Like nearly every area of scholarly inquiry today, the biological sciences are broken into increasingly narrow fields and subfields, its practitioners divided into ecologists, evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, paleontologists, and much more. But all these splintered pieces have their origins in...

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Other Authors: Graham, Michael H. (Michael Hall), Parker, Joan, 1955-, Dayton, Paul Kuykendall, 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press, ©2011.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780226307183
0226307182
1283097583
9781283097581
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • A foundation built by giants / Michael H. Graham
  • Inspiration / Robert T. Paine
  • Exploration / Gage H. Dayton, Paul K. Dayton, and Harry W. Greene
  • Initiation / Nancy Knowlton
  • Intuition / Shahid Naeem
  • Unification / Peter R. Grant.