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

Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science

Carol Kaesuk Yoon

341 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction nature science informative reflective slow-paced
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Biologist Carol Kaesuk Yoon explores the historical tension between evolutionary biology and taxonomy. Carl Linnaeus struggled in the eighteenth century to define species in light of their mutability while still relying on intuitive, visual judgme...

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