| 书目名称 | Tewkesbury Walks | | 副标题 | An Exploration of Bi | | 编辑 | Bernard Michaux | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Michaux uses a walk around Tewkesbury as a jump-off point to discuss evolution and biogeography.The book contains beautiful color photos of the English countryside taken by the author.Author‘s philoso | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | The book is composed of eight chapters, each of which are organised as walks around the Tewkesbury (UK) countryside, which move from the specific to increasingly broader ideas. So, the MS starts with an individual’s relationship to their environment (Avon and Severn Valleys Loop) that leads to a description of conservation issues at local, national and international levels, and ultimately to a discussion of the importance of Citizen Science (Coombe Hill – Apperley –Deerhurst). The following chapter (Mythe Bridge – Forthampton – Tewkesbury) looks at science as it is actually practiced and its role in modern society by an analysis of the theory of Continental Drift and a biography of Alfred Wegener. This is a story that really deserves a much wider audience, as the idea was, in my opinion, as revolutionary as general relativity or quantum mechanics, and Wegener himself was such a heroic character. The following chapter (Tewkesbury Ham) also uses biography – this time of Alfred Russel Wallace - to investigate his ideas about how animal and plant distributions are inextricably linked to geological change. Wallace was every bit as heroic as Wegener, lived an even more adventurous life, | | 出版日期 | Book 2014 | | 关键词 | Wallace; biogeography; citizen science; darwinism | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01544-6 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-34736-3 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-01544-6 | | copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 |
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