The Development of Biological Systematics
Peter F. Stevens
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 took a position near the bottom of the hierarchy of sciences.
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Año:
1994
Editorial:
Columbia University Press
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
322
ISBN 10:
0231064403
ISBN 13:
9780231064408
Archivo:
DJVU, 5.36 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1994