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Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology of Science

Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology of Science
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  • ISBN-13: 9780521372930
  • ISBN: 0521372933
  • Edition: 1st. Printing
  • Publication Date: 1990
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

AUTHOR

Scott Atran

SUMMARY

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'.Scott Atran is the author of 'Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology of Science', published 1990 under ISBN 9780521372930 and ISBN 0521372933.

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