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Landscapes and Labscapes – Exploring the Lab–Field Border in Biology

Robert E Kohler author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of Chicago Press

Published:8th Jul '03

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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.

ISBN: 9780226450100

Dimensions: 231mm x 165mm x 20mm

Weight: 516g

342 pages