Dennis Chitty

Do Lemmings Commit Suicide? (eBook, PDF)

Beautiful Hypotheses and Ugly Facts

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Unlike nearly all science books which tell of successful ventures and satisfactory conclusions, this book reveals the harsher but more common side of scientific research. Written by one of this century's most distinguished small mammal ecologists, it is both a personal history of and an apology for a life in science spent working on problems for which no final dramatic closure was reached. Included along the way are important anecdotes and history about Charles Elton and his pioneering work at the Bureau of Animal Population at Oxford University, from which much of modern population has grown, and insights on the philosophy and practice of science. This eye-opening account of a scientific career should be read by everyone in life sciences or the history and philosophy of science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 1996
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780195356977
• Artikelnr.: 38150502

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction * 2: Pioneering Observations
1929-1939 * 3: Qualitative Changes
1937-1939 * 4: Wartime Rat and Mouse Control
1939-1946 * 5: Replication
1946-1951 * 6: Behavior
Physiology
and Natural Selection
1949-1961 * 7: Controversies
1952-1956 * 8: Varying the Circumstances
1952-1959 * 9: From Wytham Woods to Baker Lane
1959-1962 * 10: Synchrony
1924-1959 * 11: Review
1923-1961 * 12: Epilogue
1961-1995