The Norton History of the Environmental SciencesW. W. Norton & Company, 1993 - Всего страниц: 634 In The Norton History of the Environmental Sciences, Peter J. Bowler chronicles humanity's long quest to understand its own origins, brilliantly synthesizing the discoveries in geography, geology, and evolutionary biology that have brought us to our current knowledge of the fragility and connectedness of life on Earth and created the new science of ecology. |
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The Problem of Perception | 1 |
THE NATURE of Science | 16 |
Science and Ideology | 26 |
The Ancient and Medieval Worlds 32 333 | 32 |
Renaissance and Revolution 669 | 66 |
THE GREAT INSTAURATION | 84 |
Theories of the Earth | 99 |
THE ORIGIN OF THE EARTH | 112 |
THE GEOGRAPHY OF PLANTS | 272 |
THE HISTORY OF LIFE | 280 |
The Age of Evolution | 306 |
THE DARWINIAN REVOLUTION | 323 |
AntiDarwinism | 331 |
THE TREE OF LIFE | 336 |
Human Origins | 346 |
Evolution and Adaptation | 356 |
New Cosmogonies | 119 |
FIRE AND WATER | 125 |
Plutonism | 131 |
Nature and the Enlightenment | 139 |
THE ECONOMY OF NATURE | 166 |
The Geography of Life | 173 |
Buffon | 179 |
Natural Progress | 187 |
The Heroic Age | 193 |
THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD | 211 |
The Ancient Rocks | 217 |
MOUNTAINS AND CONTINENTS | 230 |
THE RATE OF CHANGE | 237 |
The Age of the Earth | 245 |
THE PATTERN OF NATURE | 258 |
Form and Function | 264 |
The New Biology | 364 |
The Earth Sciences | 379 |
PLATE TECTONICS | 412 |
Past and Present | 425 |
THE EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS | 445 |
The Defence of Lamarckism | 453 |
Population Genetics | 459 |
The New Darwinism | 467 |
The Implications of Darwinism | 473 |
Mind and Brain | 480 |
Primate Studies | 491 |
Ecology and Environmentalism | 503 |
MODERN ECOLOGY | 535 |
NOTES | 554 |
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