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You ll explore key theories, movements, and events in biology, geology, geography, and environmentalism, from the ideas of classical thinkers and Enlightenment attempts to impose order on nature, to discoveries such as DNA and theories like the Gaia hypothesis. Boxes highlighting green issues – the impact of pesticides, the plight of vulnerable species, and the search for renewable energy – appear throughout, as do profiles of influential figures – Charles Darwin, Carl Linnaeus, Rachel Carson, and James Lovelock – which place their ideas in their historical context.