- What would you study if you were a biogeographer?
Further Reading / Supplemental Links
- Moore, John, A.,Science as a Way of Knowing: The Foundations of Modern Biology.
Harvard University Press, 1993. - Trefil, James,The Nature of Science, An A-Z Guide to the Laws and Principles Guiding
the Universe. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2003. - Darwin, Charles,Origin of the Species. Random House 1988.
- Cromer, Alan,Uncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of Science, Oxford University
Press. 1993. - The Nature of Sciencethe Prentice Hall Science Series 1993.
- American Association for the Advancement of Science. Science for All Americans.
1993. - Johnson, Rebecca, Genetics (Great Ideas of Science), Twenty-First Century Books,
2006. - Hedrick, Philip, W.,Genetics of Populations(Biological Science (Jones and Bartlett))
Jones and Brothers Publishers, 2005. - Charles Darwin: And the Evolution Revolution (Oxford Portraits in Science)by Re-
becca Stefoff. Oxford Press. New York, 1996. - Fleisher, Paul,Evolution (Great Ideas of Science). TwentyFirst Century Books, 2006..
- http://www.project2061.org/publications/bsl/online/index.php?chapter=1
- http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/nature/index.shtml
Vocabulary
anecdotal evidence A description of an event that is used to make a point.
biogeography The study of the distribution of living organisms.
ecology The study of the interactions of organisms with each other and with their envi-
ronment.
evidence Something that gives us grounds for knowing of the existence or presence of
something else.
life science The study of living organisms and how they interact with each other and their
environment.
population biology The study of the biodiversity, evolution, and environmental biology
of populations of organisms.