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The growth of biological thought : diversity, evolution, and inheritance / Ernst Mayr.

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  • ISBN: 0674364457
  • ISBN: 9780674364455
  • Physical Description: ix, 974 p. ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1982.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 893-955) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction : how to write history of biology -- The place of biology in the sciences and its conceptual structure -- The changing intellectual milieu of biology.
Diversity of life. Macrotaxonomy, the science of classifying -- Grouping according to common ancestry -- Microtaxonomy, the science of species.
Evolution. Origins without evolution -- Evolution before Darwin -- Charles Darwin -- Darwin's evidence for evolution and common descent -- The causation of evolution : natural selection -- Diversity and synthesis of evolutionary thought -- Post-synthesis developments.
Variation and its inheritance. Early theories and breeding experiments -- Germ cells, vehicles of heredity -- The nature of inheritance -- The flowering of Mendelian genetics -- Theories of the gene -- The chemical basis of inheritance.
Epilogue : toward a science of science.
Subject:
Biology > History.
Biology > Philosophy > History.
Biology > history.
Evolution.
Genetics.
Philosophy.
Biologie > Histoire.
Biologie > Philosophie > Histoire.
Biologie > Histoire.
Biologie > Philosophie > Histoire.
Biologie.
Evolutietheorie.
Filosofie.

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5050 . ‡aEpilogue : toward a science of science.
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