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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. 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. Ernst Mayr. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 893-955.

Author

Ernst W. Mayr

Publisher

HARVARD UNIVERISTY PRESS

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674364455

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, History

Rating

4.25 / 5 (122 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13