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What makes biology unique? : = considerations on the autonomy of a scientific discipline /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	What makes biology unique? :/ Ernst Mayr.
Reminder of title:	considerations on the autonomy of a scientific discipline /
Author:	Mayr, Ernst,
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Biology - Philosophy. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511617188
ISBN:	9780511617188 (ebook)

What makes biology unique? : = considerations on the autonomy of a scientific discipline /
Mayr, Ernst,1904-2005,

What makes biology unique? :considerations on the autonomy of a scientific discipline /Ernst Mayr. - 1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

1. Science and sciences -- 2. The autonomy of biology -- 3. Teleology -- 4. Analysis or reductionism -- 5. Darwin's influence on modern thought -- 6. Darwin's five theories of evolution -- 7. Maturation of Darwinism -- 8. Selection -- 9. Do Thomas Kuhn's scientific revolutions take place? -- 10. Another look at the species problem -- 11. The origin of humans -- 12. Are we alone in this vast universe.

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 been caused by the confounding of the five separate theories into a single composite. Those interested in evolutionary theory, or the philosophy and history of science will find useful ideas in this book, which should appeal to virtually anyone with a broad curiosity about biology.

ISBN: 9780511617188 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

632673
Biology
--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: QH331 / .M375 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 570/.1

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