This Is Biology The Science of the Living World

Name: This Is Biology The Science of the Living World
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ISBN: 9780674884694

ISBN-10: 0674884698

ISBN-13: 9780674884694

Edition: 1997

Authors: Ernst Mayr

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Shortlisted for the 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Prize, this concise volume sums up the personal wisdom accumulated during distinguished biologist Ernst Mayer's 70 years of research and reflection.

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Guide to Topics Covered


Preface


What Is the Meaning of Life?


What Is Science?


How Does Science Explain the Natural World?


How Does Biology Explain the Living World?


Does Science Advance?


How Are the Life Sciences Structured?


""What?"" Questions: The Study of Biodiversity


""How?"" Questions: The Making of a New Individual


""Why?"" Questions: The Evolution of Organisms


What Questions Does Ecology Ask?


Where Do Humans Fit into Evolution?


Can Evolution Account for Ethics?


Notes


Bibliography


Glossary Gu