false 6100838 1 <p><strong><strong>The surprising, untold story about the poetic and deeply human (cognitive) capacity to name the natural world.</strong> </strong> Biologist and journalist Carol Kaesuk Yoon takes us beyond genus and species to deep cognition, revealing our drive to name life. She tells the strange story of scientists leading people away from the impulse to name the living world, even as they are driven by it.<p /> <p /> <em>Naming Nature</em>, sure to delight readers who love words and nature, is a rich journey of naming from Linnaeus, whose system turned classification from a hobby to a science, and Darwin, who ended the idea of rigid species definitions, to today’s dream of naming all of earth’s species and listing them online.<p /> <p /> Readers will see science’s limitations and will feel the urgency of staying connected to the natural world by using familiar, rather than scientific, names. <em>Naming Nature</em> illuminates the reasons why we might care less whether a whale is a fish or a mammal as long as we know its importance in our world.<p /></p> 6278051 24 8 2009 Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science total:11|5:3|4:2|3:4|2:2|1:0| 11 39 66 5 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 09:25:19 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 08:29:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 12:07:55 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 10:12:39 -0700 2009 The Brother Gardeners, Naming Nature examines the development of taxonomy from Linnaeus to cladistics with interesting coverage of evolutionary biology, numerical taxonomy, and molecular biology. Yoon is fascinated with the human Umwelt and its role both in cre...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Aug 22 08:11:40 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 08:11:49 -0700 2009 By Carol Kaesuk Yoon (Norton)
New York Times science journalist Yoon set out to write a story about taxonomy and classification highlighting “the endearing kookiness” of prescientific and nonscientific ways of order...more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Jan 16 10:43:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 10:43:48 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 07:43:10 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 19:42:17 -0700 2009
but i did really enjoy the chapter 9. Better Taxonomy Through Chemistry. that was five stars. the rest of the book falls flat compared to other science books i have read...and LOVED. ]]> 0 0 false false Mon Nov 30 12:42:21 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 12:42:21 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 29 15:39:17 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 15:39:41 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 29 07:05:39 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 07:05:39 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 25 17:21:32 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 17:21:32 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 25 15:11:01 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 15:11:10 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 20 21:01:40 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 21:01:40 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 17:01:22 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 17:01:22 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Fri Nov 27 19:04:54 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 04:49:52 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 19:05:02 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 10 12:08:46 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 12:12:45 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 06 21:35:44 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 21:35:44 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Wed Nov 04 11:47:58 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 11:47:58 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 01 09:56:51 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 09:57:15 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Oct 20 20:26:42 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 20:26:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 20 09:45:38 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 09:45:49 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 11 11:41:40 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 11:41:40 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6100838