Do Lemmings Commit Suicide? - Beautiful Hypotheses and Ugly Facts

Zusatztext This is a beautiful hypothesis based on fairly clear assumptions that can be tested experimentally ... well written and full of interesting historical information. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This book is a personal history and apology, written by one of this century's most distinguished small mammal ecologists, for a life in science spent working on problems for which no final dramatic conclusion was reached. Included along the way are some important anecdotes and history about Charles Elton and the pioneering work at the Bureau of Animal Population at Oxford University, from which most of modern population ecology has grown, and insigts on the philosophy and practice of science.

Product details

• Authors: Dennis Chitty, Dennis (Profesor Chitty, Chitty Dennis
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.1996
• EAN: 9780195097856
• ISBN: 978-0-19-509785-6
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); NATURE / Animals / General, Philosophy of Science, Applied ecology, Animal behaviour, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Social impact of environmental issues, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Inter-war period, 1918-1939, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Ethology and animal behaviour, Second World War, 1939-1945, Postwar Period, 1945 To C 2000