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Nature as the Laboratory - Darwinian Plant Ecology in the German Empire, 1880-1900 (Paperback, Revised)
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Nature as the Laboratory - Darwinian Plant Ecology in the German Empire, 1880-1900 (Paperback, Revised)
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The science of botany underwent a dramatic change in the late
nineteenth century. A reform movement originating in Germany took
the traditionally destructive approach to the study of plant
structure and physiology and transformed it into a study of plant
adaptation. The young scientists who initiated this approach were
influenced by factors both scientific and political. Darwin's
natural selection theory and the German Reich's interest in
colonial expansion provided the background for a new botanical
methodology, which treated Nature as the Laboratory. The work of
these botanists, including Gottlieb Haberlandt, Georg Volkens, A.
F. W. Schimper, and Ernst Stahl, influenced the subsequent
development of botanical science in the twentieth century and
contributed significantly to the emergence of the new science of
ecology. In this 1990 book, Eugene Cittadino describes in detail
their early careers, their zeal for Darwinian selection theory, and
their sometimes hazardous expeditions into exotic environments from
Africa to the East Indies.
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