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What Makes Biology Unique? :Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	What Makes Biology Unique? :
Reminder of title:	Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline.
Author:	Mayr, Ernst.
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2004.
Description:	248 p.
Subject:	Biology.
Online resource:	Click here to view book
ISBN:	9780511617188 (electronic bk.)

What Makes Biology Unique? :Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline.
Mayr, Ernst.

What Makes Biology Unique? :Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline.[electronic resource]. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2004. - 248 p.

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�� Influence on Modern Thought; 6 Darwin�� Five Theories of Evolution; 7 Maturation of Darwinism; 8 Selection; 9 Do Thomas Kuhn�� 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

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 of biology, and the major ongoing issues in evolutionary theory.

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ISBN: 9780511617188 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

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LC Class. No.: QH331 .M375 2004eb

Dewey Class. No.: 570.1

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