Cognitive Foundations of Natural History

Scott Atran

Cambridge University Press, 1993

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What enables humans to think scientifically? This book traces the development of Natural History from Aristotle to Darwin, demonstrating how the science of plants and animals emerged from common conceptions of folk biology. It applies a 'cognitive' perspective to explaining successive scientific incarnations and mutations of 'mankinds original stock of ideas'.

ISBN-13
9780521438711
ISBN-10
0521438713
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1993
Publication date
1993-01-29
Pages
376
Dimensions
231x280x28
Weight
584