Toward a new philosophy of biology : observations of an evolutionist /
Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005.
Toward a new philosophy of biology : observations of an evolutionist / Ernst Mayr. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1988. - vii, 564 pages ; 25 cm - ISSR collection International Society for Science and Religion Collection .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Philosophy -- Is biology an anonymous science? -- Cause and effect in biology The multiple meanings of teleological -- The probability of extraterrestrial intelligent life -- The origins of human ethics -- Natural selection -- An analysis of the concept of natural selection -- Philosophical aspects of natural selection -- Adaptation -- Adaptation and selection -- How to carry out the adaptionist program? -- Darwin -- Darwin, intellectual revolutionary -- The challenge of Darwinism -- Darwin and natural selection -- The concept of finality in Darwin and after Darwin -- The death of Darwin? -- Diversity -- Toward a synthesis in biological classification -- Museums and biological laboratories -- Problems in the classification of birds -- Species -- The species category -- The ontology of the species taxon -- Speciation -- Processes of speciation in animals -- Evolution of fish species flocks -- Macroevolution -- Does microevolution explain macroevolution? -- The unity of the genotype -- Speciation and macroevolution -- Speciational evolution through punctuated equilibria -- Historical perspective -- On Weismann's growth as an evolutionist -- On the evolutionary synthesis and after. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX.
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87031892
GB8853553 bnb
8814083 DNLM bimoBNE19931193352 SpMaBN
Biology--Philosophy.
Evolution (Biology)--Philosophy.
Biolog�ia--Filosof�ia.
Evolucionismo.
Biology--Philosophy.
Evolution (Biology)--Philosophy.
Evolutie.
Evolutietheorie.
Biologie.
Filosofische aspecten.
Biologie
Evolution
Evolutionsbiologie
Philosophie
Theoretische Biologie
Utviklingsl�re.
Biologi.
Biologi--Filosofi.
Evolusjon.
Biologie--Philosophie.
�Evolution.
Evolutionsbiologie.
Philosophie.
Biologie.
Evolution.
Theoretische Biologie.
Biology Philosophy Evolution (Biology) Philosophy 21030 biology 41030 philosophical perspectives
QH 331 / .M374 1988
Toward a new philosophy of biology : observations of an evolutionist / Ernst Mayr. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1988. - vii, 564 pages ; 25 cm - ISSR collection International Society for Science and Religion Collection .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Philosophy -- Is biology an anonymous science? -- Cause and effect in biology The multiple meanings of teleological -- The probability of extraterrestrial intelligent life -- The origins of human ethics -- Natural selection -- An analysis of the concept of natural selection -- Philosophical aspects of natural selection -- Adaptation -- Adaptation and selection -- How to carry out the adaptionist program? -- Darwin -- Darwin, intellectual revolutionary -- The challenge of Darwinism -- Darwin and natural selection -- The concept of finality in Darwin and after Darwin -- The death of Darwin? -- Diversity -- Toward a synthesis in biological classification -- Museums and biological laboratories -- Problems in the classification of birds -- Species -- The species category -- The ontology of the species taxon -- Speciation -- Processes of speciation in animals -- Evolution of fish species flocks -- Macroevolution -- Does microevolution explain macroevolution? -- The unity of the genotype -- Speciation and macroevolution -- Speciational evolution through punctuated equilibria -- Historical perspective -- On Weismann's growth as an evolutionist -- On the evolutionary synthesis and after. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX.
0674896653 9780674896659 0674896661 9780674896666
87031892
GB8853553 bnb
8814083 DNLM bimoBNE19931193352 SpMaBN
Biology--Philosophy.
Evolution (Biology)--Philosophy.
Biolog�ia--Filosof�ia.
Evolucionismo.
Biology--Philosophy.
Evolution (Biology)--Philosophy.
Evolutie.
Evolutietheorie.
Biologie.
Filosofische aspecten.
Biologie
Evolution
Evolutionsbiologie
Philosophie
Theoretische Biologie
Utviklingsl�re.
Biologi.
Biologi--Filosofi.
Evolusjon.
Biologie--Philosophie.
�Evolution.
Evolutionsbiologie.
Philosophie.
Biologie.
Evolution.
Theoretische Biologie.
Biology Philosophy Evolution (Biology) Philosophy 21030 biology 41030 philosophical perspectives
QH 331 / .M374 1988