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Science 14 March 2003:
Vol. 299. no. 5613, pp. 1665 - 1666
DOI: 10.1126/science.1080784
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Fielding Biology

A review by Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis

Landscapes and Labscapes Exploring the Lab-Field Border in Biology
Robert E. Kohler
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002. 342 pp. $58, £41. ISBN 0-226-45009-0. Paper, $22, £15.50. ISBN 0-226-45010-4.

Kohler explores how researchers developed studies in fields and forests that allowed them to go beyond the simplifications required in laboratory work-practices that contributed to the creation of the disciplines of ecology and evolutionary biology.
The author is in the Department of History, 227 Keene-Flint Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. E-mail: bsmocovi{at}history.ufl.edu

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