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Beschreibung
What is it like to do field biology in a world that exalts experiments and laboratories? How have field biologists assimilated laboratory values and practices, and crafted an exact, quantitative science without losing their naturalist souls?
In "Landscapes and Labscapes, " Robert E. Kohler explores the people, places, and practices of field biology in the United States from the 1890s to the 1950s. He takes readers into the fields and forests where field biologists learned to count and measure nature and to read the imperfect records of "nature's experiments." He shows how field researchers use nature's particularities to develop "practices of place" that achieve in nature what laboratory researchers can only do with simplified experiments. Using historical frontiers as models, Kohler shows how biologists created vigorous new border sciences of ecology and evolutionary biology.
What is it like to do field biology in a world that exalts experiments and laboratories? How have field biologists assimilated laboratory values and practices, and crafted an exact, quantitative science without losing their naturalist souls?
In "Landscapes and Labscapes, " Robert E. Kohler explores the people, places, and practices of field biology in the United States from the 1890s to the 1950s. He takes readers into the fields and forests where field biologists learned to count and measure nature and to read the imperfect records of "nature's experiments." He shows how field researchers use nature's particularities to develop "practices of place" that achieve in nature what laboratory researchers can only do with simplified experiments. Using historical frontiers as models, Kohler shows how biologists created vigorous new border sciences of ecology and evolutionary biology.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780226450100
ISBN-10: 0226450104
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Robert E Kohler
Redaktion: University of Chicago Press
Auflage: New
Hersteller: University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Robert E Kohler
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.07.2003
Gewicht: 0,58 kg
Artikel-ID: 130694774