The essential naturalist : timeless readings in natural history /

Like nearly every area of scholarly inquiry today, the biological sciences are broken into increasingly narrow fields and subfields, its practitioners divided into ecologists, evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, paleontologists, and much more. But all these splintered pieces have their origins in...

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Other Authors: Graham, Michael H. (Michael Hall), Parker, Joan, 1955-, Dayton, Paul Kuykendall, 1941-
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Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011
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