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Ernst Mayr - What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline - 9780521700344 - V9780521700344
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What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline

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Description for What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline Paperback. This book contains essays by Ernst Mayr, the most eminent evolutionary biologist of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: PDA; PS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 344.
This book, a collection of essays written by the most eminent evolutionary biologist of the twentieth century, explores biology as an autonomous science, offers insights on the history of evolutionary thought, critiques the contributions of philosophy to the science of biology, and comments on several of the major ongoing issues in evolutionary theory. Notably, Mayr explains that Darwin's theory of evolution is actually five separate theories, each with its own history, trajectory and impact. Natural selection is a separate idea from common descent, and from geographic speciation, and so on. A number of the perennial Darwinian controversies may well have ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521700344
SKU
V9780521700344
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About Ernst Mayr
Ernst Mayr (1904–2005) was Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. For his contributions as an evolutionary biologist, taxonomist, ornithologist, as well as historian and philosopher of biology, Mayr was hailed as 'the Darwin of the 20th century'.

Reviews for What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline
'In this first book of the second century of his long career, the biologist Ernst Mayr at age 100 has given us his reflections on the most interesting and important questions about life: why living things can't be understood just as very complex machines, how humans evolved, why we haven't yet communicated with any extraterrestrials, and others. Written with a ... Read more

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