The Norton History of the Environmental Sciences

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W. 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
INDEX
607
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