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.