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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ernst Mayr |
| ISBN: | 0674364457 9780674364455 |
| OCLC Number: | 7875904 |
| Description: | ix, 974 p. ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Ernst Mayr. |
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