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What Makes Biology Unique? : Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline.
This book is a collection of revised and new essays from the most eminent evolutionary biologist of the past century, written in time for his 100th birthday. Here Ernst Mayr explores biology as an autonomous science, the history of evolutionary thought, the contributions of philosophy to the science...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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?; Glossary; Index.