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The Development of Biological Systematics : Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, Nature, and the Natural System
Overview
A reevaluation of the history of biological systematics that discusses the formative years of the so-called natural system of classification in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Shows how classifications came to be treated as conventions; systematic practice was not linked to clearly articulated theory; there was general confusion over the "shape" of nature; botany, elements of natural history, and systematics were conflated; and systematics took a position near the bottom of the hierarchy of sciences.
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- ISBN-13: 9780231064408
- ISBN-10: 0231064403
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Publish Date: December 1994
- Dimensions: 9.24 x 6.12 x 1.36 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
- Page Count: 616
- Reading Level: Ages 22-UP
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