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UNINA9911007473703321 |
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Stuessy Tod F |
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Organizing the Green World: A Conceptual History of Botanical Classification / / by Tod F. Stuessy |
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Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025 |
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[1st ed. 2025.] |
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1 online resource (XVIII, 373 p. 127 illus., 55 illus. in color.) |
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Plants - Evolution |
Plants - Development |
Plant ecology |
Evolution (Biology) |
Science - History |
Plant Evolution |
Plant Development |
Plant Ecology |
Evolutionary Theory |
History of Science |
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Chapter 1 Classification as a portrait of reality -- Chapter 2 Observing the natural world -- Chapter 3 Keeping ancient knowledge alive -- Chapter 4 Utility of plants for humans -- Chapter 5 Early efforts toward formal classification -- Chapter 6 A stable and convenient system emerges -- Chapter 7 Improving predictive quality -- Chapter 8 Development of evolutionary thinking -- Chapter 9 Phylogenetic/evolutionary classification systems: European influences -- Chapter 10 Phylogenetic/evolutionary classification systems: American and other Influences -- Chapter 11 The populational revolution -- Chapter 12 Explanation and quantification in classification -- Chapter 13 Putting descent into quantitative classification -- Chapter 14 Phylogenetic analysis and its influence on classification -- Chapter 15 Quantitative evolutionary phylogenetics -- |
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This book focuses on plant systematics and evolution, with special interest on the history and philosophy of botanical classification. Tracing the history of how humans have dealt with ordering the plant world is very much a glimpse of how human culture and science have progressed over the past 2000 years. The objective in this book is to present ideas on plant classification beginning with classical Greek and Roman scholars, through the Middle Ages, into the Renaissance, and finally to the modern 21st century. Significant quantitative methods in classification have originated within the past 70 years, which have never before been integrated with previous historical perspectives. Most textbooks of systematic botany contain an historical introduction or perhaps a chapter on the history of classification, but this book presents much greater detail on the classifications themselves and the cultural dimensions of the different time periods. Biographical detail is also provided to give a better appreciation of the individual botanists who have contributed new ideas in the search for maximally predictive systems. |
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UNINA9910865286503321 |
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Halden Grace <1983-> |
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Cyborg Conception : Cultural and Critical Responses to Solo Motherhood by Choice / / by Grace Halden |
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Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
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[1st ed. 2024.] |
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1 online resource (168 pages) |
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Sex |
Culture - Study and teaching |
Reproductive health |
Gender Studies |
Cultural Studies |
Reproductive Medicine |
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1. Introduction: Cyborg Conception -- 2. Involuntary Childlessness: Fertility Clinics and the Disadvantaged Solo Mother -- 3. Selfishly Single? Bioethics and the Solo Mother -- 4. Radical or Reckless? Fiction and the Solo Mother -- 5. By Choice: Lived Experience and Memoir -- 6. Conclusion: Choosing to be Solo not Single: Why Language Matters. |
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This book considers the growing popularity of solo motherhood via gamete donation and how this type of “cyborg conception” is narrated in medicine, bioethics, fiction, and memoir. It identifies solo mothers as radical women who exist in a space beyond binarity (male/female dual-rearing dynamic) and heteronormative discourse; solo mothers represent, among other diverse family constructions (such as same-sex couples and throuples), a critical intervention in the dominant narrative of the nuclear family which defines the “ideal” reproductive model. This book combines memoir and scholarly research to present a deeply nuanced and rigorous overview of the solo motherhood phenomenon. Grace Halden is a Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She specialises in reproductive health, reproductive technologies, assisted reproduction (IUI and IVF), donor conception, and bioethics. Her work is interdisciplinary and sits in the juncture between literary studies and medical humanities. Grace is also a solo mother by choice and a professional member of the Donor Conception Network (DCN). She has won several funding grants for her donor conception work (two funded by the Wellcome Institute) and is published widely in the field. . |
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