Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson - Paul Lawrence Farber - Google Books

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Since emerging as a discipline in the middle of the eighteenth century, natural history has been at the heart of the life sciences. It gave rise to the major organizing theory of life—evolution—and continues to be a vital science with impressive practical…