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.
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