HOW ZOOLOGISTS ORGANIZE THINGS

Humankind's fascination with the animal kingdom began as a matter of survival - differentiating the edible from the toxic, the feroc ious from the tractable. Since then, our compulsion to catalogue wildlife has played a key role in growing our understanding of the planet and ourselves, inspiring religious beliefs and evolving scientific theories. The book unveils wild truths and even wilder myt hs about animals, as perpetuated by zoologists - revealing how much more there is to learn, and unlearn.Long before Darwin, our ance stors wer...[Leer más]