Cognitive Foundations of Natural History

Towards an Anthropology of Science

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by Scott Atran

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published February 1993, 360 pages, paper

ISBN 0521438713

Inspired by a debate between Noam Chomsky and Jean Piaget, this work traces the development of natural history from Aristotle to Darwin, and demonstrates how the science of plants and animals has emerged from the common conceptions of folkbiology.