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Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson (Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science) (1st Edition) by Professor Paul Lawrence Farber Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-8018-6390-2 / 0801863902 ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-6390-5 / 9780801863905 Since emerging as a discipline in the middle of the eighteenth century, natural history has been at the heart of the life sciences. It gave rise to the major organizing theory of life-evolution-and continues to be a vital science with impressive practical value. Central to advanced work in ecology, |