Folkbiology

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MIT Press (1999)
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This book takes an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together the work of researchers in anthropology, cognitive and developmental psychology, biology, and ...

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Mechanical causality in children's “folkbiology.”.Terry Kit-Fong Au & Laura F. Romo
Mechanism and explanation in the development of biological thought: The case of disease.Frank C. Keil, Daniel T. Levin, Bethany A. Richman & Grant Gutheil
Modes of subsistence and ethnobiological knowledge: between extraction and cultivation in Southeast Asia.  (pages 1--91)Roy Ellen
Ethno-ornithology of the Ketengban people, Indonesian New Guinea.  (pages 17--45)Jared Diamond & K. David Bishop
Size as limiting the recognition of biodiversity in folkbiological classifications: One of four factors governing the cultural recognition of biological taxa.  (pages 47--69)Eugene Hunn
How a folkbotanical system can be both natural and comprehensive: one Maya Indian's view of the plant world.  (pages 71--89)Brent Berlin
Itzaj Maya folkbiological taxonomy: cognitive universals and cultural particulars.  (pages 119--213)Scott Atran
Inductive reasoning in folkbiological thought.  (pages 211-12)John D. Coley, Douglas L. Medin, Julia Beth Proffitt, Elizabeth Lynch & Scott Atran
The dubbing ceremony revisited: Object naming and categorization in infancy and early childhood.  (pages 233--284)Sandra R. Waxman
A developmental perspective on informal biology.  (pages 321--354)Giyoo Hatano & Kayoko Inagaki
How biological is essentialism.  (pages 403--446)Susan A. Gelman & Lawrence A. Hirschfeld
Natural kinds and supraorganismal individuals.  (pages 447-60)Michael Ghiselin
Are whales fish.  (pages 461--476)John Dupré
Interdisciplinary dissonance.  (pages 477--500)David L. Hull

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