The growth of biological thought : diversity, evolution, and inheritance / Ernst Mayr.
Author
- Mayr, Ernst 1904-2005.
Other titles
- Diversity, evolution, and inheritance
Published
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press 1982
Physical description
ix, 974 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN
- 0674364457
- 9780674364455
- 0674364465
- 9780674364462
ISRC
- 5200604
Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 893-955) and index.
Contents
- 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.
- Epilogue : toward a science of science.
Subject
- Biology History.
- Biology Philosophy History.
- Biology Philosophy History.
- Philosophy.
- Evolution.
- History.
- Biologie Histoire.
- Biologie Philosophie Histoire.
- Biology.
- Biology Philosophy.
- Biologie
- Geschichte
- Biologie.
- Evolutietheorie.
- Filosofie.
- Biology Philosophy.
- Biologie Histoire.
- Biologie Philosophie Histoire.
- Biological Evolution.
- Biology history.
- Genetics.
- Philosophy.
- Life sciences History.
- Biology History.
- Biology Philosophy History.
- Biology.
- Genetics.
- Evolution (Biology)
- Biology History.
- Biology History Pilosophy.
- Biology History.
- Biology Philosophy History.
- Biology history.
- Biology.
- Biological Evolution.
- Genetics.
- Philosophy.
- Biology Philosophy History.
- Heredity.
- Variation.
- Taxonomy.
- Natural Selection.
- Biological Evolution
- Évolution (Biologie)
- Philosophie.
- evolution.
- philosophy.
- 93:575
- 575.1
- 575.3/.7
- 576.1
- Philosophy of biology.
- Biology History
- Biology Philosophy History
- Geschichte
- Biology Theories to 1980
- 21030 biology p0030 theories to 1980
Related item
- Referenced by: Garrison-Morton (5th ed.) 258.12
- Includes: Human Genetics Historical Library.
- Other version: The growth of biological thought : diversity, evolution and inheritance / Ernst Mayr. - 2nd ed.
- Online version:: Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005. Growth of biological thought. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1982
- http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL21534190M
Genre
- Bibliography
- History.
- Student Collection.
- text
Language
- English
Internet Resources
- http://www.archive.org/details/growthofbiologic00mayr ; Free eBook from the Internet Archive
- Table of contents http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780674364455.pdf
Related Internet Resources
- http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL21534190M ; Additional information and access via Open Library
Summary
- Explores the development of the ideas of evolutionary biology, particularly as affected by the increasing understanding of genetics and of the chemical basis of inheritance.
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