The growth of biological thought : diversity, evolution and inheritance / Ernst Mayr.
Author
- Mayr, Ernst 1904-2005.
Published
- Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap Press 1982
Physical description
ix, 974 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN
- 0674364457 (hbk.)
- 9780674364455 (hbk.)
- 0674364465 (pbk.)
- 9780674364462 (pbk.)
Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
Subject
Genre
- Bibliography
Language
- English
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