Naming nature : the clash between instinct and science / Carol Kaesuk Yoon.
Yoon, Carol Kaesuk.
2009
QH83 .Y66 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Naming nature : the clash between instinct and science / Carol Kaesuk Yoon.
Author Yoon, Carol Kaesuk.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780393061970
0393061973
Imprint New York : W.W. Norton, c2009.
Language English
Description viii, 344 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number QH83 .Y66 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 570.1/4
508
Summary This surprising, untold story about the poetic and deeply human (cognitive) capacity to name the natural world illuminates science's limitations and the urgency of staying connected to the natural world by using familiar, rather than scientific, names.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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