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Landscapes and Labscapes
Robert E. Kohler
其他書名
Exploring the Lab-Field Border in Biology
出版University of Chicago Press, 2002-11
主題NATURE / ReferenceScience / GeneralScience / Life Sciences / BiologyScience / HistoryScience / Research & MethodologyScience / Physics / GeneralSCIENCE / Life Sciences / General
ISBN02264501049780226450100
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=eeyPEcen1toC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋What is it like to do field biology in a world that exalts experiments and laboratories? How have field biologists assimilated laboratory values and practices, and crafted an exact, quantitative science without losing their naturalist souls?

In Landscapes and Labscapes, Robert E. Kohler explores the people, places, and practices of field biology in the United States from the 1890s to the 1950s. He takes readers into the fields and forests where field biologists learned to count and measure nature and to read the imperfect records of "nature's experiments." He shows how field researchers use nature's particularities to develop "practices of place" that achieve in nature what laboratory researchers can only do with simplified experiments. Using historical frontiers as models, Kohler shows how biologists created vigorous new border sciences of ecology and evolutionary biology.