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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7875904 Title: The growth of biological thought : diversity, evolution, and inheritance Author: Ernst Mayr Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1982. ISBN/ISSN: 0674364457 9780674364455 0674364465 9780674364462 OCLC:7875904

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The growth of biological thought : diversity, evolution, and inheritance

Author:	Ernst Mayr
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1982.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Database:	WorldCat
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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Subjects	Biology -- History. Biology -- Philosophy -- History. Biology -- History View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Student Collection History
Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005. Growth of biological thought. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1982 (OCoLC)647026618
Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
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ISBN:	0674364457 9780674364455 0674364465 9780674364462
OCLC Number:	7875904
Notes:	Includes index.
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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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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Professor Mayr has written a monumental history of biological ideas...YIt is a marvelous course in evolution, taught historically. For a reader who is willing to make the effort, this book provides Read more...

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