Why study biology by the sea?
"Since the middle of the 19th century, biologists have migrated to the seashore to study marine organisms as a way of understanding life. By the turn of the 20th century, such work was being done inside permanent seaside field stations. The Stazione Zoologica, in Naples, Italy (from 1874), and...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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The University of Chicago Press
2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | Convening science: discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Since the middle of the 19th century, biologists have migrated to the seashore to study marine organisms as a way of understanding life. By the turn of the 20th century, such work was being done inside permanent seaside field stations. The Stazione Zoologica, in Naples, Italy (from 1874), and the Marine Biological Laboratory, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts (from 1888), attracted leaders in many biological fields, and helped establish biology as a modern science. Why Study Biology by the Sea? tells the story of these unique scientific institutions while attempting to answer the contemporary question, "Why study biology by the sea?" The volume examines the origins and value of these places via perspectives that range from cell biology to philosophy of science"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Outgrowth of the twenty-ninth annual MBL-Arizona State University History of Biology Seminar, held at the Marine Biology Laboratory in 2016. (Introduction) |
| Beschreibung: | x, 355 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780226672762 978-0-226-67276-2 022667276X 0-226-67276-X 9780226672939 978-0-226-67293-9 022667293X 0-226-67293-X |