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Animal Behavior Desk Reference: A Dictionary of Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution, Third Edition

Animal Behavior Desk Reference: A Dictionary of Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution, Third Edition

Barrows, Edward M.

Paperback

Environmental StudiesEvolutionGeneral Animals

ISBN10: 1138113956
ISBN13: 9781138113954
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: Nov 15 2017
Pages: 800
Weight: 5.46
Height: 1.61 Width: 8.51 Depth: 10.91
Language: English

Words are our tools, and, as a minimum, we should use clean tools. We should know what we mean and what we do not, and we must forearm ourselves against the traps that language sets us.

-- The Need for Precise Terminology, Austin (1957, 7-8)

It follows that, for effective and efficient communication, people should have, or at least understand, the same precise terminology. Such terminology is crucial for the advancement of basic, theoretical, and applied science, yet too often there is ambiguity between scientific and common definitions and even discrepancies in the scientific literature.

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