Landscapes and Labscapes - Exploring the Lab-Field Border in Biology (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2003
First published:	November 2002
Authors:	Robert E. Kohler
Dimensions:	231 x 165 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	342
Edition:	2nd Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-45010-0
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > General
LSN:	0-226-45010-4
Barcode:	9780226450100

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