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A beautiful riddle of a book. -- Time Out New York Impossible to put down. -- Booklist Starred Review: Superb. -- Kirkus Reviews A sensuous delight to read. -- O, The Oprah Magazine Starred Review: Optimistic, exhilarating, and revolutionary. -- Publishers Weekly Bracing and brilliant. -- Boston Globe Ingenious ... compelling. -- San Francisco Chronicle

...this is an inspiring and unputdownable read. BBC Wildlife ...a compelling account of how... the human brain is programmed to order and make sense of the natural world and prone to react badly when that order is challenged.A Jennie Erin Smith, The Times Literary Supplement ...began life as a paean to the work of the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, who invented the science of classification, or taxonomy. It ended up being something much more profound, however, as Carol Kaesuk Yoon came to believe that taxonomy is 'no ordinary science'. New Statesman A lively blend of popular scientific history and cultural criticism. The New York Times Book Review The author has an engaging anecdotal style, making this an intriguing read for anyone who wants a basic understanding of the story of why and how we name organisms. Birdwatch ...a compelling account... The Times Literary Supplement

A beautiful riddle of a book. Impossible to put down. Starred Review: Superb. A sensuous delight to read. Starred Review: Optimistic, exhilarating, and revolutionary. Bracing and brilliant. Ingenious ... compelling.

Evolutionary biologist Carol Kaesuk Yoon makes the case for looking, touching, listening, making our own imperfect sense of the marvels that surround us. Like Darwin, Yoon can find the beauty in a barnacle, and her book-lush with biology, biography, and folklore-is a sensuous delight to read. -- Cathleen Medwick

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Carol Kaesuk Yoon received her Ph.D. PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University and has been writing about biology for The New York Times since 1992. Her articles have also appeared in Science, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Dr. Yoon has taught writing as a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University’s John S. Knight Writing Program, working with professors to help teach critical thinking in biology classes. She has also served as a science education consultant to Microsoft. She lives in Bellingham, Washington.

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