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

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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.

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