The Essential Naturalist: Timeless Readings in Natural History

by Joan Parker and Paul K. Dayton

Book Overview

Like nearly every area of scholarly inquiry today, the biological sciences are broken into increasingly narrow fields and subfields, its practitioners divided into ecologists, evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, paleontologists, and much more. But all these splintered pieces have their origins in the larger field of natural history-and in this era where climate change and relentless population growth are irrevocably altering the world around...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226305708
• ISBN13: 9780226305707
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"