Author: Edward CloddPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creation
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A Primer of Evolution
Author: Edward CloddPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creation
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A Primer on Natural Resource Science
Author: Fred S. GutheryPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781603440257
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
In wildlife, fisheries, forestry, and range management departments around the country, natural resource scientists and their students advance understanding of the natural world largely through the collection and analysis of data. These students learn how to acquire data in the field and analyze them using modeling and other statistical methods. What they do not learn, contends author Fred S. Guthery, is what science means as an intellectual pursuit and where natural resource science fits in the scientific tradition. He argues that without education about the nature and philosophy of science, the wildlife field has become enamored with its methodologies at the expense of gaining real knowledge, leading to what some have characterized as “a crisis in how wildlife science is pursued.” With A Primer on Natural Resource Science, Guthery intends to put learning about the nature of science into the natural resource scientist’s university curriculum. In the first part of the book, “Perspectives,” Guthery describes the principles of the scientific endeavor, discussing the nature of reasoning, of facts, of creativity and critical thinking. In the second part, “Practice,” he presents the “mechanics” of science, explaining the roles of experiment, observation, models, and statistics. He also demystifies the essential activity of publishing, telling students and researchers why they must do it and how to do it successfully. Throughout the book, Guthery uses his long experience and the body of his own research to relate the philosophical underpinnings of science to the realities of field biology. By providing real-life examples in the practice of natural resource science, Guthery offers practical, occasionally painful, and sometimes humorous lessons on the human urge to know about nature through science.
“The” Quarterly Journal of Science
Author: The Westminster Review
Author: The Fairy-land of Science
Author: Arabella Burton BuckleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
How Science Works: Evolution
Author: R. John EllisPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048131839
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Evolution is just a theory, isn’t it? What is a scientific theory anyway? Don’t scientists prove things? What is the difference between a fact, a hypothesis and a theory in science? How does scientific thinking differ from religious thinking? Why are most leading scientists atheists? Are science and religion compatible? Why are there so many different religious beliefs but only one science? What is the evidence for evolution? Why does evolution occur? If you are interested in any of these questions and have some knowledge of biology, this book is for you.
Science Primers; Introductory
Author: Thomas Henry HuxleyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387069987
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Journal of Science
Author: How to Do Science with Models
Author: Axel GelfertPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319279548
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Taking scientific practice as its starting point, this book charts the complex territory of models used in science. It examines what scientific models are and what their function is. Reliance on models is pervasive in science, and scientists often need to construct models in order to explain or predict anything of interest at all. The diversity of kinds of models one finds in science – ranging from toy models and scale models to theoretical and mathematical models – has attracted attention not only from scientists, but also from philosophers, sociologists, and historians of science. This has given rise to a wide variety of case studies that look at the different uses to which models have been put in specific scientific contexts. By exploring current debates on the use and building of models via cutting-edge examples drawn from physics and biology, the book provides broad insight into the methodology of modelling in the natural sciences. It pairs specific arguments with introductory material relating to the ontology and the function of models, and provides some historical context to the debates as well as a sketch of general positions in the philosophy of scientific models in the process.
Popular Science
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.