How Zoologists Organize Things
How Zoologists Organize Things Humankind's fascination with the animal kingdom began as a matter of survival - differentiating the edible from the toxic, the ferocious from the tractable. The book…
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How Zoologists Organize Things
Humankind's fascination with the animal kingdom began as a matter of survival - differentiating the edible from the toxic, the ferocious from the tractable. The book unveils wild truths and even wilder myths about animals, as perpetuated by zoologists - revealing how much more there is to learn, and unlearn.Long before Darwin, our ancestors were obsessed with the visual similarities and differences between the animals. 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.
This human quest to classify living beings has left us with a rich artistic legacy, from the folklore and religiosity of the ancient and Medieval Early scientists could sense there was an order that unified all life and formulated a variety of schemes to help illustrate this.
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