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Robert Brown and Mungo Park: Travels Explorations Natural History for the Royal Society
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Robert Brown and Mungo Park: Travels Explorations Natural History for the Royal Society
Current price: $169.99
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Robert Brown and Mungo Park: Travels Explorations Natural History for the Royal Society
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This book considers these naturalists, Brown, Park, and their contemporaries, from the perspective of the Scottish Enlightenment. Brown’s investigations in natural history created a fertile environment for breakthroughs in taxonomy, cytology, and eventually evolution. Brown’s pioneering work in plant taxonomy allowed biologists to look at the animal and plant kingdoms differently. Park’s adventures stimulated significant discoveries in exploration. Brown and Park’s adventures formed a bridge to such journeys as Charles Darwin’s voyage on H.M.S. Beagle, which led to a revolution in biology and full explication of the theory of evolution.