Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science by Carol Kaesuk Yoon

Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science

Carol Kaesuk Yoon

344 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction nature science informative reflective slow-paced
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Now, as Carol Kaesuk Yoon, biologist and longtime science writer for the New York Times, reminds us in Naming Nature, taxonomy is critically important, because it turns out to be much more than mere science. It is also the latest incarnation of a ...

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