Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science by Carol Kaesuk Yoon

Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science

Carol Kaesuk Yoon

352 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction nature science informative reflective slow-paced
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Finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology: the surprising, untold story about the poetic and deeply human (cognitive) capacity to name the natural world. Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Swedish botanist Carl...

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