What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy by Ernst Mayr

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By Ernst Mayr

This publication, a set of essays written by means of the main eminent evolutionary biologist of the 20th century, explores biology as an self sufficient technological know-how, deals insights at the historical past of evolutionary suggestion, reviews the contributions of philosophy to the technological know-how of biology, and reviews on numerous of the main ongoing concerns in evolutionary concept. significantly, Mayr explains that Darwin's idea of evolution is really 5 separate theories, every one with its personal background, trajectory and influence. common choice is a separate proposal from universal descent, and from geographic speciation, and so forth. some of the perennial Darwinian controversies may perhaps were because of the confounding of the 5 separate theories right into a unmarried composite. these drawn to evolutionary idea, or the philosophy and background of technological know-how will locate beneficial principles during this e-book, which may still entice almost an individual with a extensive interest approximately biology.

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